Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Survivors told of seeing fellow passengers blown along the decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers...
Revolt by Spring? Nearest thing to a blueprint for revolution in the Reich was outlined at Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With...
...swift punishment for the killing was directed by General George Argeshanu, Commander of the Bucharest Army Corps and former War Minister, who was named premier to replace the slain Calinescu by King Carol II and the Crown Council...
...believe there would be interest in a short feature of quotations of those earlier men with a simple salutation to the individual concerned, as: To-Bob Pastor: He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again...
...program will be: Cimarosa, two choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto;" Bach, "Jesu, Who Didst Ever Guide Me;" Bach, "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us;" Paine, choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes; Dvorak, arrangements of two Czechoslovakian folksongs; and Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe." The concert will be broadcast internationally by the non-commercial short wave station W1XAL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...