Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy's most disastrous explosion along the Pacific Coast was off San Pedro 13 years ago when a blast aboard the U. S. S. Mississippi killed...
...Jersey, anticipating trouble, burly Governor Harold G. Hoffman let out a headline-making blast aimed at the C. I. O.: "A labor union has no more right to take possession of a factory than a band of gangsters has to take possession of a bank. ... To the citizens of New Jersey I promise-and to lawless organizations I give warning-that, if necessary, the entire resources of the State will be called into action to preserve the rights, liberties and property of its citizens...
There are thousands of victims of Parker in Cook County alone. . . . His swindles in real estate were enormous. . . ." Of all Chicago's newspapers, only the Tribune published this blast, and Mr. Parker claimed the Tribune had libeled him in doing...
...history. For the first time he asserted the right of the Supreme Court to nullify Acts of Congress as "unconstitutional." Thomas Jefferson, Marshall's distant cousin and lifelong political foe, never acknowledged that claim. If it were correct, he declared in the first great anti-Supreme Court blast, "then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo-de-se [suicide...
...Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife and eight children, the powder exploded, razed the house, killed three...