Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socialist Deputy, was set upon by fanatical blackshirts who jumped out of a closed automobile and seized him from behind. Bundling him into their machine, they kidnapped and brutally murdered him. For days a rigid Fascist censorship released only news that he had "disappeared." Then the details of the crime leaked out. Charges were preferred against prominent Fascists. II Benito himself did not escape the implication of ultimate responsibility. The entire Italian Cabinet turned in its resignation. And Dictator Mussolini barely kept his seat...
Since then preparations for the trial of the alleged murderers have dragged, out interminably. The first anniversary of the crime TIME, June 22, 1925) passed off quietly, after Fascist and Socialist, demonstrations had been severely nipped...
...revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty, for the present. 3) He was answered by M. Paul Boncour, for France, on whom the dead Viviani's mantle as an orator has descended, in a pro-League speech of wonderful...
...shrill emptiness of life that drove a gentleman of such parts, schooled in such a civilized charm, to lead a life beleaguered with lonely effort, desolated with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant room on Lake Shore Drive for the suburban field where it will rest...
...Crime alone?the industry which, with meatpacking, is responsible for the wide reputation of his native city?he could not understand. When the report came to his paper of the bandits who raided the Drake hotel, (TIME, Aug. 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he said: "Poor fellows...