Word: victims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed Murphy was a harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn...
Later in the day the same two Fascists stole up behind their victim, blackjacked, pummeled, kicked...
...widow of Paul Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...
...appeal to the Opposition by puppet-President Ignatz Moscicki was ignored. A story gained credence that the sick Lion of Poland had fallen victim to delusions of persecution, had shot his own gardener, was raving, confined in a straitjacket...
...known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over petrie dish, Dr. Francis and six of his assistants were infected. They recovered, having learned more about the strange malady. It is a slow fever with all the attendant aches, pains, chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with typhoid because the germ resembles typhoid bacillus. Since its recognition 430 cases have been reported, 18 deaths; only nine states in the extreme northeastern U. S. appear to be unaffected...