Word: assassins
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Through Afghanistan, through all the bazaars of India ran contradictory rumors that the assassin had been an agent of Russia, of Amanullah, of one of Nadir's brothers. The Afghan Government branded a "low-class Afghan," one Abdul Khalliq, as the assassin, assured the Afghan Minister in London that "everything is absolutely all right...
...which last year re-christened its gridiron Corbus Field for the alumnus whose cleated shoes had honored it. When he entered Stanford in 1930 Bill Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero, he worked as hard as the rawest scrub in football practice this season...
...correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
...Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud of his alias Stalin, meaning "Steel...
...looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed, a replacement would be fixed by the law of succession...