Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Independence wing of the Liberal Party and before a month was out Governor Gore's name became involved in a series of awkward political rows which spilled at regular intervals into the pages of U. S. newspapers. Last week the rows culminated in a plot to bomb the Governor's summer home...
Last week, in the midst of the controversy, came news that Governor Gore's summer home, 50 mi. from San Juan, had been bombed shortly after he had left it. Next day another bomb, its fuse defective, was found in the garden of the Governor's mansion at San Juan. The Governor immediately ordered floodlights thrown around the mansion, asked Puerto Rican police to confiscate all guns and ammunitions stored at the University R. O. T. C. headquarters...
Sent to Indo-China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve...
...Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
Beyond a doubt the example of fanatic patriotism set by the three Japanese heroes of the Shanghai "human bomb" last year encouraged last week's "human torpedoes." Every Japanese knows the deathless story and it is kept green in the advertisements of "WAKAMOTO-Best...