Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
...parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly...
...Isolationists, look up at the sky, look around you and see if freedom is not worth fighting for. Had we been more conscious of our responsibilities to the world, we would not have been in this predicament. We've chosen to enjoy living while others were planning murder. We've got to get the gangsters...
...columns fanned out from Peking and Tientsin to west and south. Shanghai was taken after stubborn resistance (TIME, Aug. 30, 1937). The Chinese Armies fought rear-guard actions up to Nanking, where a ferociously maddened Japanese Army committed one of history's most terrible acts (TIME, Dec.27, 1937). Murder, rape, destruction, looting-a crazy vindictiveness on the part of the Japanese-resulted in some 50,000 civilian deaths...
STREAMLINED MURDER - Sue MocVeigh - Houghton Mifflin ($2). A poisoning on the Shooting Star's trial run -Manhattan to Chicago in 14 hours. The engineer perishes from sodium arsenite before he ever pulls the throttle. En route some passengers swallow the same stuff: one dies. Denouement: a tribute to Diesel electric engines...