Word: assassine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peru's undeclared war with Colombia when up stepped a little man in black and shot him through the heart. Pandemonium. Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear. Chosen Provisional President to succeed Sanchez Cerro was cautious General Oscar Benavides, who has already served a term as Provisional President of Peru. Foreign correspondents wagered that...
Executed. Joe Zangara, 33, assassin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak; at 9:17 a. m. March 20 in the State Prison electric chair in Raiford, Fla. In the death room he spat, "Lousy capitalists. No scared of chair. . . . What! Nobody take pictures?" He half-said, "Good-by," when the current jolted through...
Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate...
...Pickler, Assassin...
First attempt to assassinate Pacifist Ozaki occurred in 1917 when two Japanese with drawn short swords rushed a lecture platform from which he was speaking. Some time later 13 members of a Japanese nationalist assassination league tried to kill him in his own home, were sent sprawling by four faithful servants who had been studying jiu-jitsu in their spare time against just such an emergency. Shinave Ozaki, one of his quarter-British daughters,* smuggled him out of the house in one of her kimonos. Since then Dr. Ozaki has lived abroad, in Britain and the U. S., lecturing...