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...consequence of the murder of Mechislav Vorovsky at Lausanne (TIME, May 19) and the acquittal of one Conradi, his assassin, the Soviet Government issued instructions to the Russian police: "to revise carefully the lists of Swiss citizens now residing in Soviet territory and to make a separate list of those born in the Swiss Canton of Vaud [where the murder took place]." It was understood that the Government intends to deport all the Swiss from the Canton of Vaud who are living in Russia and all those who have recently entered the country, as a protest against the acquittal...
General Juan C. Gomez, First Vice President of the Venezuelan Republic, was stabbed to death while asleep in bed by an unknown assassin. The crime took place in Miraflores Palace, Caracas, capital of Venezuela, in the early morning...
...mummified body of John Wilkes Booth," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is advertised in a professional theatrical publication as being " for lease." The man who wants to let it is named Bates, and his address is No. 1234 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Startled by the threatened conflict between the Producing Managers' Association and Equity on the " closed shop" controversy, and fearing that should the clash come next fall, no matter what the result, the playwrights would be the grist between the theatrical millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother...
...Daudet, and himself no mean writer, is the energy of the Royalist movement. Charles Maurras, also an editor of the paper, distinguished by the excellence of his polemics, may be termed the moral and theoretical leader of the party. The late Marius Plateau, who was killed by a female assassin, was considered the greatest organizer of the three. It was on account of his death that the Camelots raided the offices of the radical newspapers, L'Oeuvre and the Ere Nouvelle...
...will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...