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Before Artist Rivera could pull the trigger, bystanders intervened. But honor had been impugned and a duel was in order. Half an hour's furious talk on the part of the authorities convinced both principals that the duel should be one of words, to be held in the same place the following night...
According to the ancient code duello, the seconds in an affair of honor fight beside their principals. According to the modern version of the code, seconds must try to effect a reconciliation satisfying to the honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin...
...Buenos Aires shooting was not over. Minister of Agriculture Luis Duhau and Minister of Finance Frederico Pinedo temporarily resigned their Cabinet posts for the purpose of challenging their accuser, 70-year-old Senator Lisandro de la Torre, to duel. The greybeard, a great rapier expert in his youth, promptly agreed to fight the Minister of Finance who had challenged first and, having the choice of weapons, picked pistols. Over 100 Argentineans, mostly prominent, watched. Hoary Senator de la Torre, his grey beard whipped by the winter breeze, drew himself up and fired into the air. Minister of Finance Pinedo, after...
Jolly Berlin crowds in the brightly-lit Kurfürstendamm nightlife district had more fun last week than these beery, sausage-stuffed revelers have had in months. Well-dressed German women and their swank, duel-scarred escorts vied with shopgirls and mechanics in spurring on with laughter, cheers and songs the most savage Jew hunt since those which immediately followed Adolf Hitler's elevation to power by the ballots of 52.5% of all German voters (TIME, April...
...Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton's ironic reply...