Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beset by 100 townsmen in Tepic, Mexico, when he ordered them to surrender their arms, Commandant Nicholas Bernal staged a one-man battle lasting 29 hours last week, wounded 30 of his assailants, was killed by a bomb...
...Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
...Burn, Bomb, Destroy!" Almost apologetically the U. S. Agent before the Mixed Claims Commission, grizzled Robert Williams Bonynge, Manhattan lawyer, Harding appointee, charged last week that in 1915-16, when the U. S. and Germany were still at peace, the Imperial Government sent over secret agents who committed sabotage throughout the U. S., hired Negroes to infect horses with anthrax germs in New York City, Newport News (Va.), and Baltimore, hired other Negroes to touch off such mighty munitions explosions as New Jersey's famed Black Tom blast...
...Rintelen came directly from Section Three B of the General Staff early in 1915 with $500,000 to finance sabotage activities [in the U. S.]. In an affidavit from the British Admiral, Sir Reginald Hall, who intercepted von Rintelen's instructions, we learn that he was told to 'burn, bomb and destroy...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...