Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention to the "due-process" clause of the Constitution, declared, "The rack and the torture...
Gustloff, had been shot and killed by a Jewish student from Yugoslavia, one David Frankfurter, who admitted frankly that his purpose was "political murder" (TIME, Feb. 17). What this meant to Adolf Hitler the emotional Realmleader told all Europe in a hastily arranged broadcast. Bawling at the top of his lungs, he cried: "You did not die in vain, Wilhelm Gustloff! My dear Party Comrade, what your Jewish murderer did not foresee was that he prepared the way for an awakening of millions and millions of Germans to a truly German way of life. ... In every office will hang Gustloff...
Since numerous Nazis were convicted of murder in the German courts before Adolf Hitler came to power, and since the "Blood Purge" he ordered as Chancellor included such outright Nazi murders as the shooting of General and Frau Kurt von Schleicher in their home (TIME, July 9, 1934), this blanket assertion that there has never been even one Nazi murder seemed last week perhaps the most amazing statement thus far by Messiah Hitler...
...actor, finding his actress daughter dead by her own hand, fakes her murder; then at a dinner of suspects, just as he seems on the point of accusing someone, turns out the lights and fakes...
...schoolteacher, brimming with idealism and love, inadvertently gives his favorite pupil the bright idea of murder...