Word: murderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After printing the faces of the war mongers for the past year on your cover will you please let us see the faces of some of our men in public life who do not have murder in their hearts, namely, Borah, Vandenberg, Nye and Hiram Johnson, or is TIME also interested in war profiteering...
Behind the elegant veneer of Bucharest society, Rumanian politics are murderously tough. The assassination of King Carol II, for instance, was recently all set to take place at a swank turf classic, according to Bucharest police. Nabbed by detectives in time's nick, the nonchalant plotters were said to have been caught preparing hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier...
...They began a man hunt for Iron Guards in every part of Rumania, but in Bucharest they put on a grisly show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped...
...July night in 1937 when the alleged murder of a Japanese sentry at Peking's Marco Polo bridge (he turned up within a day, A.W.O.L.) furnished a pretext for the invasion of China, Japan's trade with the U. S., its best customer and its best market, started downhill...
...government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder comes easy. Afterwards he slumps to a park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs...