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...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...
...Pittsburgh two On Leong laundrymen crumpled up dead on the sidewalk with blood bubbling from wet bullet holes. The assassin faded smoothly back into the blue, gone...
...Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86), New York widower-politician, polished, unfastidious, who was nominated for Vice President as running mate of James Abram Garfield to mollify and obtain the political support of Spoilsman Roscoe Conkling and his gangs of "Stalwarts." When Garfield died from Assassin Charles Guiteau's bullet, Arthur served for three years as "the only man of the world, in the best sense of the term, who has ever occupied the White House...
...naked, his body a mass of bruises, rushed down the aisle and up to the tribune. While shrieks resounded from the gallery, this man, one Jovan Risitch, coughed and spat blood upon the floor, then cried in a husky voice: "You, Maximovitch, did this to me! Last night your assassin Sokolovitch had me stripped as I am now and beat me himself because I-a poor government clerk-would not vote as you ordered...
Death, clad in an assassin's cloak, sprang last week at Senor Adolfo Diaz whom the U. S. has recognized as President of Nicaragua (TIME. Nov. 29). The President was riding alone in his carriage at 11 p. m. when two men armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell...