Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This piece is openly provocative and cannot be interpreted in any other way than calling for Trotsky's assassination. You need only give the implements of assassination to the assassin to complete the task...
...enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...
...Samuel Gompers of his island, had been re-elected Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Washington over Dr. José Lopez Antongiorgi, onetime Manhattan physician whose Liberal Party wants independence from the U. S. When Commissioner Iglesias, who miraculously escaped with a bullet-furrowed right arm when an assassin fired five shots at him last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 9), was notified of the result, he was the first to praise Puerto Rico's new cheatproof election system, inspired by Maryland's Senator Tydings...
...fellow Communist assassinated in Leningrad that city's Party boss, Dictator Stalin's ''Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Stalin is supposed to have grilled the assassin personally...
Mystery-loving folk throughout the world have woven legends around the afterlife of historic personages supposed to have survived their official deaths. A reputed mummy of John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart...