Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interest centred upon "Butcher" Weyler. At 87 he has outlived, but not lived down, the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97)-a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. His position among the older and potent hierarchy of Spanish officers was never successfully challenged until last fall (TIME, Oct. 19). At that time General (Dictator) Primo de Rivera, representative of the younger military clique, ousted him from the gold-braided citadel, which he occupied as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army. Having plotted energetically for eight months, according to despatches, he established himself...
...Karl Busch appeals to the sporting instincts of Americans in bespeaking their favorable consideration of his hero, von Richthofen. Now he appeals to our artistic instincts in defending Artist-Butcher Schwarz. What think ye, Americans...
...Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer...
Jean Frenchman rushed to his favorite wine merchant, to his tobacconist, to his butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Hastily, he laid in a supply of articles about to become vastly more expensive. Then, clutching his remaining franc notes, he sought out the sellers of foreign bonds and securities...
...conclusion of the Locarno Conference (see Page 11), partly the result of extraordinary rumors of an enormous merger in the automobile industry; partly a mechanical culmination of the last feverish weeks-the interest of J. P. Morgan & Co. in U. S. Steel and General Motors; the eagerness of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker for over half the stocks listed by the Exchange...