Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Survivors told of seeing fellow passengers blown along the decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers...
...Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...time the problem is different. And the difference is the fault of an ambitious little country where life is not abundant, Japan. Last week a European squeeze was on The Netherlands, and Japan was on the alert. At the most opportune and opportunistic moment, out came a spectacular jingoistic blast: Japan would like some of that Dutch abundance, and would brook no interference to her ambition to dominate the South Seas...
Trombone for this blast was the Pacific, official organ of a pseudo-liberal Japanese organization called the Institute of the Pacific.* The Institute is dominated by a dynamic, humorous politician named Yusuke Tsurumi, who can write 14,000 Japanese characters by hand in one day and can talk English faster than the late Floyd Gibbons could. The Institute was probably one of the chief catalytics last September in the appointment as Foreign Minister of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. Such an outfit is worth listening to. It said...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt, brooding over his bed-breakfast, decided to resurrect a long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal...