Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pettengill, minecraft commander, publicly declared that Honolulu was unsafe for the wives of Naval officers and men and they were not to be brought to the islands for the maneuvers. They could not comment on the hazards for civilians wives, but Admiral Stirling warned: "Honolulu may expect cases of assault upon women unless the better element gets to work to stamp it out." Much to the relief of the city's business and resort leaders, he officially reported to Washington that there had been "disturbances" but "no rioting," that, in the Paradise of the Pacific, the "situation is under...
...take over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...Vikyuin Wellington Koo. onetime Premier, onetime Minister to Great Britain and to the U. S. What he wanted: the coveted job of Foreign Minister. While Dr. Koo and others were eyeing the post longingly two months ago a band of "students" obligingly made it vacant by a savage assault upon the then Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang who, severely injured, "resigned" (TiME, Oct. 5). One of the aspirants was Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to the League of Nations. Many observers in Shanghai last week predicted that Dr. Koo's tenure would survive only until...
...curious history. It was made a misdemeanor in English common law, not chiefly out of reverence toward the departed but as a deterrent to breaches of the peace. The theory: that vilification of the deceased would, if it reflected upon his living family, incite the latter to assault the offender. Subsequently the law was interpreted in a broader sense, to protect the family against reflected defamation whether or not the family was prompted to avenge itself by violence...
High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...