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...when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons who still live in Austria, a daughter who lives in Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Leak | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Vancouver, B. C., one William Phillips went home late at night, read a novel called The Triple Murder. He arose, grabbed a hatchet, slew his son Eric, 4, his daughter Joan, 10. Then he made after his wife Lillian, who jumped out of a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passover | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

After one lesson, James Joseph Tunney, last week slew an old and feeble bull at one sword-thrust on the estate of Matador Algabano in Seville. Natives screeched their glee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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