Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been occupied by the hated capitalists, but now a new state of things had arrived and no such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that sounds very American. There was a bomb scare. The " authorities grew excited with fancies of bomb-throwing in the opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that...
Noah Lerner, jaunty young electrician who was arrested a week ago on the charge of homicide, in connection with the Wall Street bomb of September 16, 1920, is again free. It was alleged that he boasted in Siberia that he knew the driver of "the little red wagon" of Death. He was arrested in New York and held in the Tombs without bail. His case was dismissed on May 21, there being no evidence...
...Soviet Russian Government without pay to erect radios in Kemarova, Russia. He had Communist affiliations. As a known radical it was apparently considered worth while to arrest him first and investigate afterwards. He is the 29th innocent man that the police have "suspected" as responsible for the bomb outrage...
...Bomb.-About 2.30 in the morning some unknown person left a bomb on the doorstep of the American Consulate General in Mexico City. Five minutes later it went off, but, fortunately, killed no one and did little material damage. Evidence points to the fact that it was a Communist bombing outrage directed against Carlos Castillo, a lawyer occupying offices in the Consulate building. After this explosion it became known that a puerile bomb attack was made on the American Embassy building about three weeks ago. It also transpired that the American envoys, now in conference at Mexico. City, shortly after...
...throwing and coercion reveal a laudable fighting spirit, but unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...