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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
Above the microphone hung a large poster picture of Alvaro Obregon, and upon the further wall a photograph of his widow, children. Everyone in the room smoked incessantly, the audience, the reporters, the nine jurymen and the judge. For what was being broadcast was the trial of José de Leon Toral and the nun, who is charged with being his "intellectual accomplice," Madre Concepci...
Then over Station XFX and probably for the first time in history a prisoner described to thousands his sensations under "third degree." José de Leon Toral said tonelessly that he was suspended, swung and jerked by a rope binding his wrists and ankles behind his back, while policemen kicked him and predicted, "He'll soon sing...
...House. Aside from the prospect that the Republican majority manipulated by Wet Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Leader John Q. Tilson will be bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...
...Army 38, De Pauw...