Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...will, when convinced that the effort is worth while, exert your-selves to the utmost. A member of an athletic team will play his heart out to win. You will burn the midnight oil feverishly to pass an examination. But the constant, daily toil is more exacting. You may temporarily lose sight of the incentive; you may be diverted by pleasanter things. Your first problem, then, and it is yours alone, is to convince yourselves that steady application is worth while...
...Loot the shops," shouted the agitators, "burn the fat bourgeois restaurants...
...social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick coupe, also maintains a Cadillac, a Negro chauffeur. From his luxurious Stamford residence, he golfs at the Wee Burn, Suburban, or Woodway country clubs, takes much interest in the town's Ferguson Library, the Children's Home. He likes the theatre and concerts...