Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Look at him ! There is a paid assassin. You men are handicapped when you face men like this. When you meet such men draw quickly and shoot accurately. Look at him! He's the best-dressed man in this room, yet he's never worked a day in his life...
...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...
Meanwhile, Yugoslavia filed charges with the League that Hungary was responsible for the assassination of King Alexander on French soil. The Yugoslav assassin was alleged to have been instructed in the use of weapons at a "murder farm" for Yugoslav terrorists in Hungary. Insulted to the last degree, Hungarian League Delegate Dr. Tibor Eckhardt challenged Yugoslav Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch to debate the issue on the spot. Hungary was backed up by Italy, II Duce proposing a general all-European investigation of refugee terrorists, such as the antiFascists who plot in Paris to assassinate him. Before this challenge...
...President made the rounds of its schools. He saw Vanderbilt University and Ward-Belmont. At Fisk the famed Negro choir sang "Down by the Riverside" for him. At the request of Secret Service men, the George Peabody College for Teachers clipped its shrubbery back lest it conceal an assassin...
Kelly. Year and a half ago an unconscionable assassin deprived Chicago of its Democratic Mayor Anton Cermak. Chicago's two Democratic Bosses, Septuagenarian Patrick A. Nash, and State's Attorney Thomas Courtney, picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which...