Word: killings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...
...PLOT TO KILL HOOVER...
...snakes are not venomous, nor killers. Of nonpoisonous ones, the constrictors kill prey by coiling around it and squeezing it to death...
...feared by independent poultrymen. It was Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert who held under his pudgy thumb all the truck drivers; who was implicated in bombing the home of Rebel Poultryman Joseph Hasenfratz. It was Charlie Herbert who bossed the Shochetim Union (Jewish slaughterers); who disciplined independents by refusing to kill their chickens according to Jewish dietary laws...
...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...