Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixth senator-Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned me that it might be a deadly germ carrier. I will not be picked up by any of the tricks of the Jesuits...
...haggard. He is 54 and has now been certified by Berlin police physicians as "entirely sane." Last week, he convinced a large section of German public opinion that there are circumstances in which a private citizen is justified in enforcing his claims upon the State by means of a bomb...
...spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown off the earth. I have my hand on the fuse and I shall set off the bomb the moment my request is refused...
Since both men are solid, rational Teutons, there ensued argument and negotiation which continued for one hour, two, three, three and a half. Herr Langkopf, without ever removing his finger from the detonator of his bomb, stated passionately a case which was soon to rouse the sympathy of almost the entire German press...
...Pineapples" are convenient, effective and easy to obtain in Chicago, where bomb-making has almost the status of an industry. "Our people are being terrorized," said President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission last week. Police Chief Hughes could only say, "I'm helpless. . . . If I had 3,000 more policemen we could stop those bombers...