Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting the precedent for this policy was the American retention of Admiral Jean Darlan as chief of French Africa. Analyzing this policy in Africa, Irwin Shaw has written "The Assassin," denouncing not only the collaboration with Darlan but the sidestepping of recognition of the underground forces...
When President James Garfield lay fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet at the White House in 1881, Vice President Chester Allen Arthur was dangerously ill. Had Arthur also died, there would have, been no immediately available successor to the White House. The next in line was the Senate's President pro tem, but Congress was not in session and had elected no such officer. As a result of this and other crises, Congress in 1886 passed a new Presidential Succession Act, making the Secretary of State next in line after the Vice President...
...Caxton text briskly refurbished into up-to-date English by Editor Harry J. Owens of Chicago's Lakeside Press, Reynard emerges again, a lively and unscrupulous opportunist, still happy to live by his wits in picturesque unrespectability. "A thief, a traitor and an assassin"-in the words of his archenemy, Isengrim the Wolf-Reynard remains a likable rascal...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
...Pathe Studios in Joinville, a suburb of Paris, dozens of nail-straighteners were hard at work last week. With new nails scarce or unobtainable, their labors were needed to make scenery for a movie to be called L'Assassin Chantait. In Paris offices, French cinemagnates and U.S. and British moneymen were equally busy making deals and filling the French movie world with rumors of great things to come...