Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...story on Mexico in your issue of July 15, you state that the late U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, "helped plan the downfall and murder of Francisco Madero in 1913." This is one more repetition of a flagrant falsehood which has persisted for 27 years. I ask TIME's aid in squelching it for good...
Though both Rumanian and German troops promptly occupied key buildings in Bucharest, murder followed murder as the hours sped by. Twenty Carolists were killed in the Ploesti oil fields. There the riots quickly turned from politics to racial hysteria, and 2,000 Jews were said to have perished. More were killed in Galati, where Iron Guardists stormed and slaughtered through the Jewish quarter...
...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
...GREAT MISTAKE-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Maud Wainwright, money-dripping widow of the Cloisters, is bedeviled by a neighborhood crowd of dastardly ex-husbands and bitchy ex-wives. Plenty of murder...
...BUCHAREST BALLERINA MURDERS - Van Wyck Mason - Stokes ($2). Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas...