Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered to the floor. In jail, Avila Camacho later talked to his attacker, let it be known through a spokesman that Lieut. Lama y Rojas was a "Nazi sympathizer." Lieut. Lama y Rojas complained: "There is no justice...
Treue richly satisfies the Jappetite for bloodshed. It contains 49 successful murders and suicides, a few unsuccessful ones. The story tells how 47 faithful Ronin (knights), led by one of the Rōnin, Yuranosuke, avenge the assassination of feudal War Lord Yenya. Having dispatched the assassin, Prince Moronao, all 47 commit hara-kiri at Yenya 's grave - as a sign that their oath of feudal loyalty holds good even to death...
Among the articles of interest being shown now are the speech notes and spectacle case which deflected an assassin's bullet during his campaign for a third term...
Brassy, cocky, seemingly born with a sixth sense, Sammy Schulman has had more than his share of news beats. He was the only "snapper" on the scene when Assassin Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt in Miami in 1933. Result: a memorable picture of fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. Of all the U.S. photographers who tried, Sammy alone got into Rome's St. Peter's in 1939 for Pope Pius XII's coronation...
Nash's chief municipal study was in the art of low bidding for Chicago's fat sewer contracts. When shrewd Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak was killed in 1933 by a Miami assassin's bullet (intended for F.D.R.), Nash eased into the saddle, made a mayor of onetime Sewer Engineer Edward Joseph Kelly, soon began a series of colorful, losing battles for statewide power with the late Governor Henry Horner. The Nashist approach: "I like to be called a boss, even...