Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violence strode the world last week. Great storms lashed the Great Lakes (see p. 15), the stock market crashed historically (see p. 45), assassin's guns were pointed in Belgium and Chile (see pp. 27, 32). President Hoover, rumbling through Indiana, felt his special train grind to a stop. A sedan had been placed on the tracks at a grade crossing. Secret Service operatives investigated on the spot. Two Negroes were arrested. They succeeded in convincing their captors that, ignorant of the President's proximity, they had plotted merely to collect damages from the railroad...
...paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...
...most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate...
Thirty lawyers appeared to defend Assassin Ratchitch last week; 60 to prosecute him. The legal babble approached a pandemonium. Jugoslavia is excellent tinder for an immediate conflagration. Therefore, the trial of Ratchitch was despatched with more than usual speed and sentence was passed, last week, condemning the slayer of Raditch to 20 years' imprisonment at hard labor. Croats calculated the bitter mathematics. Three men had died from the Ratchitch bullet. Twenty years' imprisonment for Ratchitch; the life of a Raditch therefore was worth exactly six years and eight months of a Ratchitch life. They fingered the revolvers in their pockets...
...vital organs to be disposed here and there -such was the will of Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, 85, Army autoptician, who died at Washington last week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body...