Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days previous, offer him brandy & cigarets at dawn and finally for the ornate Garde Républicaine to salute the condemned as he walks from the police van to death. All these amenities were offered last week to Paul Gorgulov. Russian slayer of the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME...
Such a trial as could revolve only around a fanatic vortexed in Paris last week around Dr. Paul Gorgulov who was caught red-handed assassinating the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16). The strange proceedings so fascinated a group of young French lawyers that they stealthily occupied the press box one day when it was vacant, tried to hold it against the furious assaults of newshawks, had to be ousted by the police...
...shoot Paul Doumer!" cried the prisoner (who in French courts may interrupt at any time). "I shot the President of the Republic of France! France listen to me! . . . When I came to France I saw people living in security and plenty and I thought of millions of Russian peasants groveling out their lives in starvation and misery. . . . My crime is a protest in the name of the enslaved Russian people...
...dowry of his small, red-faced, fourth wife, she testified stanchly in his behalf last week. "He has always," she explained sobbing, "been so good to me! A few days before this -this-happened he took me to a movie. There was a newsreel in it of President Doumer and my husband applauded. I just can't imagine why he killed...
...defense Maitre Marcel Roger and Maitre Henri Geraud argued quietly that it was the sufferings of Russians under the Soviet regime which motivated Dr. Gorgulov to kill M. Doumer whom he held responsible for the existence today of trade & diplomatic relations between Russia and France...