Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koldhard Fax" will be played by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, in the presentation of "License Revoked," a one-act play on capital punishment. Mather will be arrayed against Mand Lynn Sentiment, Mrs. Vie Tim Foakes, and Spear I. T. Murder...
...Terror hung in a red haze over Cuba last week, the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Dictator Gerardo Machado detonated to an end. Dead were 20, all youths under 25. Cubans had so often seen the fantastic in murder that last week they believed every atrocious rumor whispered in an alleyway. But many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb...
...MURDER MUST ADVERTISE-Dorothy L. Sayres-Harcourt, Brace...
...sort of bastard Ocdipus of "Boys in Uniform" is a weak substitute for the Sappho of "Girls in Uniform." A soulful cadet is in love with his young step mother, who has married his ancient soldier father for reasons unexplained. There is a murder, the cadet is accused refuses to speak to save his mother sweetheart's honor, and in general displays all the noble qualities of man. After a courtroom scene of strange procedure the mystery is solved and the situation ends substantially where it began...
Cuba's persistent restlessness brought murder and sudden death last week. In Santa Clara City somebody who disliked President Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities...