Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President is to be congratulated: he is apparently not afraid to speak out when be thinks it necessary. He is the first Chief Executive since the beginning of the century who has cared to speak definitely on a subject which is as liable to prove a boomerang as a bomb...
...advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information of this-are no more idle, the Krupp engineers have completed a 309 mm. quick-firing, soundless gun. They are working on a model...
...with prudence. If it is desired to prove the point that our Government has become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...
There is another point seriously open to doubt. I refer to the statement: "for in spite of government efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war." What are the facts on which this is based, or is it only some more speculation and inference...
...fault, but if investigation demonstrates that revolutionary propaganda is still at work to such a degree as to cause a $2,000,000 blaze, the occasion would be ripe for a renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress this increasing danger. For in spite of governmental efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war; yesterday's fire should be only one more argument against the extreme methods which the radicals appear to have adopted to attain their desires...