Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britons read with bug-eyes last week that the secret Nazi fleet maneuvers had been observed and reported by a method which smacked of the British Intelligence Service and of smart Sir Samuel Hoare. As a young Intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, ingenious Sam Hoare knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special...
...series of broadcasts sponsored throughout the winter by Sherwin-Williams Co. (paint). Basso Norman Cordon, a towering North Carolinian, was impressive as the ill-used father when he pronounced his curse on Rigoletto, did even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product of the Juilliard School of Music...
...Shark Island" is undoubtedly one of the best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such a simple, straightforward manner that...
...slain "martyrs' " friends, principally Royalists and Fascists, were waiting for him. As Frot mounted the stairs to the appeals court, surrounded by his friends, a Royalist shouted the one potent word, "Assassin!" It was the signal for pandemonium. Martyrs' friends and assassin's friends joyously joined battle, screaming, slugging, slapping and pulling. Frot's friends shrieked "Liberty! Liberty!" Somebody got one good swing at Frot just before a slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled...
After Their Majesties had all safely left France this week, attention shifted to the further trial at Aix-En-Provence of three Croat terrorists, accused as accomplices of King Alexander's assassin who was killed by police. Expert testimony proved last week that bullets fired by police in the wild melee winged eight persons while the assassin winged only three...