Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 15 months ago (TIME, June 23, 1924) occurred the famed Matteotti murder, a scandal that rocked Fascism to its foundations. As he walked one evening beside Tiber, Giacomo Matteotti, multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy, was set upon by fanatical blackshirts who jumped out of a closed automobile and seized him from behind. Bundling him into their machine, they kidnapped and brutally murdered him. For days a rigid Fascist censorship released only news that he had "disappeared." Then the details of the crime leaked out. Charges were preferred against prominent Fascists. II Benito himself did not escape the implication of ultimate...
There is talk of attempting to prove that Matteotti's slayers originally intended only to kidnap him, and that his murder "was more or less of a mistake." Both the alleged instigators of the crime and those accused of the actual murder will be prosecuted. But the former, even if convicted, will escape under the scope of the last general amnesty, which condones all political crimes except murder...
...attempt will be made to put Deputy Macib out of Congress so that he may be tried for murder...
...through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl that wants Geoffrey, ?well, she forfeits her claim by chasing Gita. all over the lawns and shrubbery of the old manor house in a roadster with murder in its bright lights...
...Captain Anton Heinen, German dirigible expert acted as advisor during the construction of the Shenandoah. He referred last week to the report that eight of the 18 safety valves in the ship's gas bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which...