Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War...
ĥAccepted with smug satisfaction the happy ending by Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of the incident in which Turkish shore patrols shot at British officers sailing in Turkish waters, killing one (TIME, July 30).
John Hamilton, 35, bandit, whom Dillinger helped to escape from the Indiana State Prison last September. Month later Hamilton returned the favor by delivering Dillinger from the jail in Lima, Ohio, killing a sheriff. The pair robbed banks, shot policemen with precise criminal skill.
When this rebuff, wrapped up in courteous Turkish "regrets," was flashed to London the British Government merely instructed Sir Percy to ask for a joint Anglo-Turkish inquiry into the killing of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. To this the Turkish Government grudgingly agreed, stiffly called this minimum request a "most unusual...
The flyers who were the first to look down on the sacred mountain were careful to keep clear of Tibet, but the holy men in Lhasa fumed at the desecration. Last winter the gods of Everest seemed angry. The Dalai Lama died. A catastrophic earthquake shook North India, killing thousands...