Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time pensively fondling the top of his cane and appears to the casual eye incapable of plotting in 1915 to blow up Canada's Weiland Canal...
Depression struck the second blow. Unable to borrow money for the Dominion, Premier Squires proposed to sell its greatest possession, Labrador, to Canada for only $100.000,000. Canada turned down the bargain (TIME, Feb. 29). Inevitably Newfoundland's "dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon...
...group of anti-Fastisti who plotted his death in Paris cafe corners. Premier Benito Mussolini is known as "The Big Dog." In Rome last week two Italians who had tried unsuccessfully to blow "The Big Dog" into small bits met the special death that Italy reserves for spies and traitors-shooting in the back. Last summer 13 bombs exploded in Genoa, Bologna and Turin, killing three idlers and a policeman. One Genoese bombing almost coincided with the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele. In September another bomb went off in a Genoese apartment, killing the mother of one Domenico Bovone. Police...
...member of the New York Bar, married (to a daughter of Soapman Sidney Morse Colgate), Eddie Eagan has done no fighting since 1928. Last winter he was a member of the winning four-man U. S. bobsled team in the Winter Olympic Games. Fighting for Fun, a blow-by-blow biography of a unique career, appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post...
That man is Alfred E. Smith. ... As Roosevelt generalizes, Smith is specific. As Roosevelt loves to delay, Smith loves action. Irresolution is ingrained in one; boldness in the other. ... In Franklin Roosevelt we have another Hoover. . . . The election of either Hoover or Roosevelt would be a blow from which this nation would not recover in a generation. . . . The times call for courage and action. We have those qualities in Smith...