Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force he was by turns athlete, motorcycle patrolman, hero. He was cited three times for bravery, once for capturing a earful of bandits who peppered him for a mile and a half with a machine gun until their car overturned. He was also a member of the bomb squad...
...their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back in London and working again for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, cartoon...
...high-calibre Colombian general named Virgilio Barco journeyed to Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest to Henry Latham Doherty...
...Capital's outskirts, fantastic conflicts raged among the modernistic buildings. Dispatches reported Madrid defenders gunning from behind books in the Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that of 1914-18. the opposing commanders do not order their airmen to bomb the enemy G. H. Q., and thus are not bombed themselves. This week the Whites were so unorthodox as to hurl bombs into the very courtyard of the G. H. Q. in Madrid and astonished General Miaja barely escaped, his life intact but his illusions shattered. After...
...been riveted upon the common European scene and, to a lesser extent, upon the Pan-American peace efforts, some fire-crackers have been competing unsuccessfully in the din. Yet they are worth noticing, for almost any one of them may be linked in series with a world-shaking bomb...