Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terror-ridden Cuba found its tiniest terrorist last week when one Rafael Tocoronte, 13, was caught heaving a bomb in midtown Havana. To police he bragged that he had been planting bombs for several years, "to help the cause." He proved it by producing a score of bombs freshly made in his home. The judge of one of the "urgency courts" President Carlos Mendieta has instituted to fight the Terror sentenced Moppet Rafael to six years in the juvenile penitentiary...
...book, was no more successful than the first three. Then for the first time in his life Upton Sinclair had a little luck. He got a publisher to send him out to Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result was The Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted him on the commission which laid the groundwork for the Meat Packing Law of 1907. Sinclair refused, but kept the pot boiling to such a pitch...
...cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground a truck driver who saw the meteor telephoned police that a burning airplane was falling. California astronomers thought it likely that the phenomenon was, in reality, miles away from the airliner...
...only too glad to see them lose, so that the picture is practically littered up with suspects. True to all mystery stories, the most innocent appearing and least suspected is the culprit, who finally goes mad, having perpetrated his dastardly deeds with practically unlimited resources, which include a bomb in the form of a pocket watch, a poisoned mustard jar exchanged for the genuine by a hairy hand under cover of the excitement caused by a firecracker (mind you, in the end, only one person is exposed as the murderer) and various other nefarious strategies. The most plausible offenses...
General Johnson's share in the disappointment is hard to estimate. He has sincerely fought for its success and has been one of the few men who would tell the President what he thinks. Nevertheless, bomb ash has not been able to combat the inefficiency of his administration. This is a time when it would be wise for the administration to back down frankly and regain the confidence of "daunting Thomases" and theoretical die-hards. In the process it should retain the value that lies in the NRA. Not only has codification been excellent for large industries, but minimum...