Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worry about these niceties. To them the Trotsky incident was just one more black mark against the fallen government of Camille Chautemps. The Chautemps Cabinet was in office during the bloody riots of Feb. 6; Camille Chautemps' brother-in-law has been charged with complicity in the murder of Judge Albert Prince (TIME, April 23); now it appeared that it was the Chautemps regime that granted Conspirator Trotsky permission to settle within 35 miles of Paris. Even French papers of the Right had difficulty blaming Conspirator Trotsky for the original Feb. 6 rioting, but Le Journal charged, possibly with...
...French Colonial Africa, then to the U. S., where he cadged awhile in Manhattan, worked in the Ford factory in Detroit, lived in uneasy clover as a harlot's fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw...
...DRINK FOR MR. CHERRY-Dorothy Gardiner-Crime Club ($2). Stopping in Horaceburg, Colo, for his health, mild Detective Watson cannot keep his nose out of a private murder...
...CAUTLEY MYSTERY-A. Fielding-Kinsey ($2). Apparent greed murder, with three cousin suspects, brings Inspector Pointer to rural England. Following another murder, a trap is baited, the killer caught...
...with a brand new show. The machinery of American justice is dusted off, set up and bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...