Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicaragua arrived at New Orleans last week aboard the Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.'s S. S. Cefalu. They brought with them the bodies of two of nine U. S. citizens killed by bandit fol- lowers of Rebel Augusto Sandino. The composite story they told of last fortnight's slaughter was as follows...
...answer to Marine inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...
Coconuts, another great Ceylon industry in the doldrums-chief reason seems to be slaughter of whales. One correspondent in Daily News hysterically asks if anybody knows how long the whale supply of the world will hold out under present slaughter rate-if supply seems able to continue indefinitely will not someone please page immediately the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and see if whaling cannot be stopped or impeded? However Ceylon's only hope, coconutwise, seems to be for the civilized world to decide that they prefer, much prefer vegetable fat such as coconut as the base...
...China's Annamites, a fighting people gifted with both intelligence and guile. Near Vinh, the provincial capital of North Annam, some 5,000 Annamites gathered not long ago and began the march upon the capital. Bombing planes were sent out against them. Two hundred natives were slain. The slaughter was comparable in every way to the notorious British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919-for it turned out that the 5,000 Annamites were, in this particular instance, unarmed, had only been making a march of protest...
...favorable conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet to a desire which has been nurtured in the last two battered and darkened...