Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for the assassination. They hoped to strike terror in capitalist and governing classes and bring about martial law, which they believed would be equivalent to military dictatorship. For a while they had considered mass slaughter of the House of Representatives. They thought about murdering Ambassador Grew and U.S. Consul General Arthur Garrels. They even considered shooting Charlie Chaplin who was then visiting Japan...
...Wayne married Josephine Saenz, daughter of a Panamanian Consul. Otherwise he just worked. He worked in clutching-hand serials, and in some three dozen Westerns. It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight. In Seven Sinners and The Spoilers he turned out to be one of the best tackling dummies Marlene Dietrich has ever found. The war has given Cinemactor Wayne an unexpected break. Since outdoor violence has become one of the world's most important occupations...
Last year Mannheim Kalaf, now the head of a family and the proprietor of a Superior grocery store, decided that 25 years without hajjel was plenty. Brooding brought action: he wrote the U.S. Consul in Beirut, Syria. The consul gave him encouragement but no hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...
That reality, no doubt, was clear to swarthy, scheming Pierre Laval when, on the day new Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...
...sinister militaristic Black Dragon Society. Ken Inukai was also charged with aiding Eurldan, a Korean terrorist group. The charge was that he had helped Eurldan to derail an express 100 miles from Tokyo, thereby badly injuring Navy Minister Admiral Shigetaro Shimada and Captain Fritz Wiedemann, onetime German Consul General in San Francisco...