Word: assassins
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...Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London: "The man [Sherif Abdul Hamid] had no political party behind him. In fact, there was no attempt on the King's life at all because he lives at Riyadh while the would-be assassin never got beyond Mecca." Nevertheless, Abdul Hamid was jailed for life...
Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
...under the circumstances, Wendell Willkie singing Siegfried would have sold as well, or a tenth-rate road company of Pagliacci. The audience gave a burst of applause to a capable newcomer, Hungarian Baritone Alexander Sved, as the king's assassin. For the rest, the audience behaved as if it expected to be applauded itself...
TIME'S splendid tribute to the American correspondents in China, appearing in the newspapers, first attracted my attention. As a former Far Eastern correspondent who has lived under the Japanese terror, I know and appreciate the danger and the horror of living with the assassin's gun at one's back every minute of the day and night. Those correspondents who remained on the front lines of the Sino-Japanese War have long deserved recognition for their services to the American people...
...snap: Republicans! First Republican President maker in this book, which covers the period from 1896 to 1919, is Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the Ohio boss credited with electing McKinley and coming the expression: Stand pat! Second Republican President maker is Roosevelt I, who in so far as McKinley's assassin did not make him President, made himself President. He also made Taft, who occupies quite a section of the book...