Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, he was in the Morgan offices when a bomb explosion rocked the building in 1920, was gashed by flying glass. At No. 1060 Fifth Avenue he owned one of the world's largest private apartments (45 rooms. 22 baths), lived there alone after his wife's death in 1927. Through the Markle Foundation he gave millions...
...aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters in order to keep their appointment, the President fired a bombshell over the warship's wireless at the London Conference. The bomb-enunciation of a brand new reason for his refusal to stabilize currencies-exploded; seemed about to collapse the Conference instantly; and utterly astounded not only his Secretary of State Hull and the delegates of 65 nations but also his chief Braintruster, Raymond Moley...
...giving him a good hiding, you can look for serious trouble with me." Few days later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled an order with a voice like a bomb. The shout scared a soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose. In Rochester. Minn, four surgeons from famed Mayo clinic boarded a chartered plane shortly before...
...Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that the noonday gun seemed a little late, went on with his work. Saving his breath, the Fascist officer picked the passport out of the fountain. Demetrio Solamon was later arrested in his hotel...
Under orders from Munich and Berlin, Austrian Nazis went to work last week. Attempts were made to assassinate at least ten high Austrian officials. Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk...