Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago influential Editor Howe received a visit from his fellow townsman A. D. Payne, lawyer. On June 27 a bomb concealed in Payne's automobile had blown Mrs. Payne to bits, critically injured their 9-year-old son. Payne and their two little daughters were not near. Said Lawyer Payne to Editor Howe...
...Baltimore and sent to California by the Mooney-Billings defense to admit his perjury after the Supreme Court refused last month to recommend a pardon for Billings (TIME, July 21). In 1916 he told trial juries that he had seen Billings and Mooney with a suitcase, presumably containing the bomb, at the street corner where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing at all, so muddled were truth and falsehood...
Police Captain Goff testified that MacDonald had identified Billings and Mooney without any prompting from him. Another witness declared that he had heard MacDonald describe the bombing and the two men with the suitcase two hours after the explosion. The hearing unexpectedly broadened out when Miss Estelle Smith, onetime dental nurse, drug addict and witness against Billings at his trial, revised her testimony, charged that Prosecutor Fickert had pressed her into perjury. Incidentally she set up an alibi for Billings by declaring he was in her office, a mile from the explosion scene, just a few minutes before the bomb...
...returned to the charge, made by Grover Aloysius Whalen, onetime New York Police Commissioner, and supported by dubious documents, that Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet commercial agency in the U. S., is also the secret U. S. headquarters for Soviet political propaganda and agitation (TIME, May 12). At the hearings, bomb squad detectives lined the walls. A Russian monarchist sat just behind the committee to prompt and whisper. Curious women fanned and gasped in the stuffy room...
...because natives have been lax in religious observances, that the new cult will bring salvation. Organized four years ago by one Le-Van-Trung, 55, onetime Government councillor, Kao-daism now numbers more than 500,000 believers. To repress their nationalistic propaganda, authorities have been obliged to whip, shoot, bomb them...