Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sultry afternoon of July 22, 1916 a Preparedness Day parade moved martially down San Francisco's Market Street between close-packed lines of spectators. Suddenly at the corner of Steuart Street a large bomb in a suitcase exploded, showered the throng with metal slugs, killed ten persons, wounded 40. Within the week police arrested Thomas Mooney, radical labor leader, Warren Billings, I. W. W. agitator, and three smaller figures. They were charged with wholesale murder. Billings, who had been found guilty in 1913 of using dynamite in labor disputes, was tried, convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment. Mooney was also...
...small bomb intended for the Baroness Edouard de Rothschild exploded in the Paris Central Postoffice, injured...
...quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...
...railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs believed in political revolution by votes, not in physical revolution by torch and bomb. Significance. Debs was a character who stirred violent emotions. A judi cial appraisal of him by a biographer is well nigh impossible. Biographer Coleman presents him in a favorable light, popular izes him, tries to preserve a fair balance of fact. But his personal admiration for Debs too often gets...
...mimic maneuvers were to bomb the financial district, clean out a defense post at Columbus Circle, strafe the Hotel St. Regis as a theoretical centre of resistance (Navy umpires atop the hotel scored the attack). Formations were temporarily broken as the attackers engaged in imaginary cat-&-dog fights high over the city's craning millions. Proudest witness of the spectacle was David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics, the Navy's prime War ace, whose earnest purpose it is to impress citizens with the necessity for, and perfection of, the Navy...