Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo cowed Paris? The supplies of munitions moving across French Indo-China into Central China and thence to Generalissimo Chiang were halted on orders from Paris last week. Rumors that Japan had threatened to seize the Chinese island of Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed...
...zanne. Mellowing Mr. Widener extended an invitation to all members of the Museum to come out to Lynnewood Hall for a look at his renowned Van Dycks, his Raphael Room, his magnificent Rembrandts. Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes...
...Royal Highness Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, 39, and cousin of King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III, was appointed by Benito Mussolini last week to be Viceroy of Ethiopia, replacing bomb-wounded Marshal Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March i, April...
...sunny Morocco, impatient wives and sweethearts of Moors fighting under Rightist Franco demonstrated at Tetuan, screaming: "We want our men back!" precipitated a bloody 24-hour riot put down by 130 executions. Meanwhile, the mere presence in the Balearics of Son Bruno Mussolini (TIME. Nov. 8) provoked so many bomb raids as Leftists tried to exterminate him, that last week Spanish Rightists were vastly relieved when Bomber Bruno flew back to Italy with part of his Fascist squadron...
Streamers of colored paper linked ship and pier, bright specks of confetti dotted the air between waving throngs on the dock and the gay crowd on the liner's deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...