Word: slain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...explosion on the U. S. S. Whitney killed seven men. Ten Marines were slain in Nicaragua. In plane accidents 26 Navy, 13 Marine flyers died. Other Navy fatalities: drowned, 72; suicides, 35; murdered, 5; drugged, 12. Bad food made 129 sick, killed none...
...Sword devoureth one as well as another." Hardened and harsh was King David when he spoke these words to the messenger who told him that Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, had been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan...
...scattered force of 30,000 men by the Treaty of St. Germain, cannot enforce the Cabinet's orders, bristling Schutzbund and Heimwehr leaders grew more than ever violent in language as the week progressed. Cried fiery Dr. Pfrimer, Vienna Heimwehr Commander: "For our brothers whom the Schutzbund have slain, the Heimwehr will take revenge in a form that will be remembered for many a long...
Atlanta. The unknown murderers of Robert Brandon, mortician, and Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson of Hartwell, slain during the convention of the National Education Association in June...