Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to hold a snap election. The Labor Party split with a loud crack last week when Pacifist Lansbury resigned as Leader, declaring: "I personally cannot see any difference between mass murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between...
...Soldiers, I give you this advice. Be cunning, be savage. Face the enemy one by one, two by two, in the fields and mountains. Do not take white clothes. Do not mass as now; hide and strike suddenly. Steal up, snipe and murder singly...
While the real cause of the murder of County Attorney Middleton probably will never be known, most Kentucky officials agree with Reader Rosenstein that slot-machine racketeers were back of it. Six men are in Harlan County jail, under indictment for first degree murder...
Divorcing. Dorothy Gish, stage and screen actress: James Rennie, actor (Murder at the Vanities) ; in Bridgeport, Conn. She testified that he came home intoxicated on weekends, woke her up, babbled incoherently for hours, caused her to lose sleep and have fits of hysterical laughter, once induced an attack of hiccoughs that lasted six days...
...Glum and nostalgic, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, 73, observed: "Theft, assault, kidnapping, murder, follow each other with tragic frequency. These acts are all done by men and women who have been pupils in our schools and many of them pupils in our colleges as well. . . . It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality with a genius for impressing himself upon the group of pupils of various ages and stages of advancement which...