Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly all France believed Assassin Gorgulov to be mad. There was comment and there were shrugs because the Widow Doumer did not ask clemency. But there was no criticism. If the late President's widow had set her heart against a madman surely it was her right to do so. As his death day dawned Dr. Gorgulov kissed the Orthodox priest who administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife...
Four days later in the Kuban village of Labinskaya, zealous Soviet police arrested Assassin Gorgulov's 82-year-old mother and also his aunt, charged them with "stealing grain from a collective farm," the penalty for which is Death. Moscow papers seemed displeased by the Kuban policemen's zeal, took the line that an 82-year-old grain thief should not be put to Death. They hinted that even if Dr. Gorgulov's mother & aunt are convicted their sentences will surely be commuted...
...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
...assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; brother of Marie, best-selling Grand Duchess (The Education of a Princess and A Princess in Exile...
Engineer Pascual Ortiz Rubio has had a terrible term. His troubles began two hours after his inauguration when a would-be assassin bloodied his face (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930). He finally had to admit, "A situation of political crisis has existed from the beginning of my administration, making the work of my Government weak and insignificant." Last week after denying for several days in succession that he would resign, Mexico's harassed Great Engineer resigned...