Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...
Said Britain's lion-maned, pernickety old David Lloyd George: "Perhaps after all Chamberlain was responsible for the Munich bomb outrage; the explosion was 15 minutes late...
Chapter 2: The Dastardly Plot. On the night of November 8, at 9:21 p.m., just eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich, a bomb exploded, killing eight, injuring 62, just missing the little man who wasn't there...
...Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With Nazi Protector Baron Xeurath Leader Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival...
When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen...