Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
...broad and militant a movement inevitably precipitated opposition from other students. In some places Fascist Clubs were organized. This was true of the University of Colorado with its American Brown Shirts, and Columbia, where the Fascists brought in Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C...
...eleven o'clock some 2,000 students appeared in front of the Widener Library. The Chowder Club came out in regalia, one clad in towels holding a "Down with Peace" sign, another in black robes with a bomb, another in boy scout togs tooting a bugle and leading cheers for "We Want War," and the prize of the lot clad as a Nazi Storm Trooper...
...Orleans, on the docks of which its scene is laid. But it may deservedly run for months in the Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street, with febrile audiences largely recruited from the neighborhood. Union Square, centre of racial tolerance, is little more than a tear gas bomb's throw away...
...trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...