Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment it seemed that this last scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
...Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved...
...Marion, Ill., Catholics, ever fraternal, were drawn closer to each other one day last week. "Did you hear what happened last night?" they asked each other. Some person or persons-the police could not say who-had set a bomb on the basement steps of the church. It went off, ripped the basement steps, shattered windows, scattered suspicion...
Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census...
...Young delivered no philippic, no bomb. If there had been any crisis at Philadelphia, no listener would have guessed it. Gov. Young told the bankers the A. B. C. of banking. He laid down some incontrovertible rules of ethics. Among them: "Responsibility of banks does not end with their depositors and stockholders. Banks also have a responsibility to the community in which they are located. . . . It is my conviction that a healthy banking situation is the best guaranty of a healthy economic development...