Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Salvemini has lost no time in replaying to the story in the Ialian press implicating him in a bomb explosion in St. Peter's last Summer. He has cabled to II Duce demanding that he be tried and convicted "in absentia" and that the Italian Government then apply for his extradition from the United States. He told the newspaper men that the addition of his name to the list of six men hitherto mentioned in connection with the crime was apparently an after-thought on the part of the Italian Government...
...special statement to the CRIMSON. Professor Salvemini said, "if there were the slightest evidence against me for such an odious crime as to bomb a church crowded with innocent people or for any other crime, Mussolini would demand my extradition from the United States. He never will do so, because he thus would give me the opportunity of refuting all charges before impartial judges. Therefore I do not need to make any disclaimer...
...Head of the Government, Rome, Italy. I learn from the newspapers that my name will be brought before the Fascist Special Tribunal on charges connected with the explosion of a bomb in St. Peter's last June and with conspiring against your life. I challenge you to have me sentenced as guilty by your Tribunal and to ask then for my extradition from the United States on the basis of such a sentence. Thus you will have the opportunity to lay down the evidence of my guilt before an American Court and I that of refuting all the charges against...
Gactano Salvemini, Laure de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, is one of the seven Italians charged by the Italian government with setting off a bomb in St. Peter's Cathedral last June 25 an Associated Press dispatch states. Four of the seven Italians are now under arrest and awaiting trial in Rome; two others along with Professor Salvemini are now out of Italy...
These inauspicious accidents did not daunt the 200 officers and 324 enlisted men who had been sworn in on their tarmacs for duty with the Post Office Department. The mail did go through, in 148 ships whose machine guns and bomb-racks had been yanked out so they could carry letter sacks in their bellies. To begin with, the Army dropped 16,000 of the 27,000 route miles previously privately flown. Some feeder services were abandoned: Twin Cities-Chicago, Los Angeles-Portland, New Orleans-Chicago, Buffalo-New York. On the New York-San Francisco run, the Army maintained...