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...Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked two of Nadir's nephews from his hostages, slew them and piled their bodies in a palace closet. When Nadir had scattered Water Boy's army, he strangled him in chains. It was a fine point whether Uncle Nadir ought to give the throne back to Nephew Amanullah, still hiding in Rome. A few rabble-shouts persuaded Nadir...
...letter also elaborated Father Davison's cable of last month: ''Got small bull elephant" (TIME, Aug. 14). He slew the first bull, Mrs. Davison the next, a larger one; Pete Quesada, their airplane pilot, the first...
When a heavy plane's tail is lifted, torque from the propeller or giving it the gun too quickly may slew the ship sideways for an instant, heavily taxing the pilot's skill to keep his course. That apparently happened to de Pinedo, and his skill failed. Not yet going fast enough to rise, his ship slewed sharply, heading straight for the field's administration building where 150 persons stood watching. Then it slewed further as though, foreseeing danger to many, de Pinedo chose disaster for himself alone. The thundering Bellanca crashed through a heavy wire fence...
President Coolidge sent 5,000 Marines and bluejackets in 1926 to catch him. President Hoover branded him only last year as a desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
Ever since Japanese cadets & petty officers slew Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai for the patriotic reason that they feared his war policy was not firm enough (TIME, May 23), closest police secrecy has shielded the assassins, whose names remain unrevealed...