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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Needed to survive, 36; needed to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Defeated Again | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

This little stout man with long grey whiskers told how he, a boy of 16, had tried to kill Tsar Alexander II* in 1875 by mining the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). He told how he mined the railway track in 1879 along the route to be taken by the Tsar on his return to the capital from the Crimea. He told how, in 1880, he had mined a bridge in an attempt upon the life of his Tsar. He told why he was always unsuccessful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Comment would be superfluous. When, if ever, you get back to running an AMERICAN paper instead of a hybrid of partly anarchy and partly worse, I shall hope to be advised of your reformation. Meantime please kill on mailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said it was a plot to kill Mr. Toupin. The Republicans said that their lives were not safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home, Sweet Providence | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...exciting verse-Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick-"puts ideas into children's heads . . . they might kill themselves, or at least do themselves bodily injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chenophobes | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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