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...assassin shots that crumpled up indomitable old French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15) delayed until last week what Germany has most dreaded-consummation of the Barthou-Litvinoff project for a military pact linking the Soviet Union and the French Republic...
...Last fortnight Exile Angel Morales, Dominican Minister to the U. S. under ex-President Horacio Vasquez (1924-30), hired a bodyguard of two, after an assassin entered his apartment, found his secretary shaving, mistook his lathered face for Morales' and killed...
...month before President Garfield died of an assassin's shot in September 1881, a party of U. S. soldiers under a young lieutenant, up from Civil War ranks, arrived at Lady Franklin Bay on barren Ellesmere Island, some 600 mi. from the North Pole. This Army detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which...
Nabbed by the Imperial police, who dragged him before the Prince Regent, Would-Be-Assassin Wang was asked by His Highness: "Why did you wish to take my life...
Whether or not the beast will be stuffed, preserved, and mounted in the Union depends on the modesty of its assassin. To aid him in his decision there are two courses of action open to Freshmen, a petition or a Memorial Society meeting. The former is more likely to appeal to ebullient Freshmen...