Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pathologist, gathered in the offices of Dr. Orlando Scott to examine the mummified remains of one John St. Helen. They thumped it, felt it. x-rayed it. Then they gravely nodded their heads and all but announced that the mummy was none other than that of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln...
Three days later, however, 14 persons appeared outside the White House as "hunger marchers." In a cold drizzle they unfurled their banners ("Mr. Hoover, We Demand Food & Lodging," "Mr. Hoover You Have Money for the Entertainment of the Fascist Assassin Grandi."). Promptly the police pounced on them, arrested all 14 for parading without a permit. Their leader, one Herbert Benjamin, loudly explained that when Congress sits (Dec. 7), 1,300 "hunger marchers" would be in Washington demonstrating for relief...
...prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
Neumann's hero is a political assassin. Hoff, former German officer, since the Revolution a professional dancer in a Berlin cabaret, is leader of an extreme group in an anti-Government party. This group decides to precipitate a counterrevolution by killing the Prime Minister; as leader. Hoff assumes sole responsibility for the job. He has everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns...
Thinking quickly, Agent Parke paid no attention to the fallen President but rushed past, seized the assassin by neck and wrist and held him, shouting: "This is the man!" until relieved by policemen. Assassin Guiteau was a disappointed office-seeker whom both Garfield and Elaine had ordered kept off their premises. He had wanted, apparently, a consular appointment...