Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly out to his car, shouted, "They failed to kill me. Long live the March Revolution!" Hearing only the last and unaware of the shooting, the crowd affably took up the slogan they recognized. "Long live the March Revolution!" Later Dictator...
...many a man who voted for Garner for Vice President thought as Franklin Roosevelt did. Jittery journalists wrote pieces to the effect that never before was the health of a President more important. On the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, when an assassin in Miami pumped a gunful of bullets at the President-elect and succeeded in fatally wounding Mayor Cermak of Chicago,* many a voter sighed with relief that the U. S. had been spared Garner as President...
...assassin shots that crumpled up indomitable old French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15) delayed until last week what Germany has most dreaded-consummation of the Barthou-Litvinoff project for a military pact linking the Soviet Union and the French Republic...
...Last fortnight Exile Angel Morales, Dominican Minister to the U. S. under ex-President Horacio Vasquez (1924-30), hired a bodyguard of two, after an assassin entered his apartment, found his secretary shaving, mistook his lathered face for Morales' and killed...
...month before President Garfield died of an assassin's shot in September 1881, a party of U. S. soldiers under a young lieutenant, up from Civil War ranks, arrived at Lady Franklin Bay on barren Ellesmere Island, some 600 mi. from the North Pole. This Army detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which...