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When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ladies & Gentlemen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Crisply the Dictator recalled how he recently "rotated" (dismissed) two members of his Cabinet (TIME, July 23), because "each had completed his full cycle of activity." Well, said Il Capo in effect last week, the executives have now completed their cycles?and so, the sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pro yesso del Fascismo | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...basement of a villa at Marseilles were found some weeks ago, the bodies of two women who appeared to have been bluebearded. The tenant, M. Camille Gaillard, was said to have been seen escaping with the body of a third woman slung over his shoulder in a sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...182.Luckless Chinese businessmen of Tientsin were "squeezed" by Chang Tsung-chang, last week, for over $300,000-a bribe which this Super-Brigand shamelessly exacted with threats that if it were not paid he would sack the city before evacuating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...luminary of this spring's nine until a rheumatic back put him on the shelf almost a month ago, hurled his first full game yesterday afternoon since the Dartmouth encounter on May 12. In six of the innings of yesterday's clash, no Indian succeeded in reaching the initial sack. A brace of hits in both the fourth and eighth frames accounted for the two William and Mary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIAN INVADERS REPULSED, 13 TO 2 | 6/15/1928 | See Source »

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