Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week this special chuffed north from Denver to end the great Republican silence. An hour later at La Salle, Governor Landon swung aboard and the GOP campaign was off in a burst of cheers. A few minutes later the nominee's numerous aides and advisers were in consternation when it was discovered that the man in charge of baggage had left standing on the La Salle platform a small bag containing the manuscripts of Alf Landon's speeches...
...Last week, at the same price, the same technique was used to let the Reich's Reds know how U. S. Reds felt about the German attitude toward the Spanish Revolution (see p. 18). Hour and a half before sailing time, there was a sudden burst of firecrackers outside the Bremen's pier. In unison 150 men & women, attired in evening dress and stationed about the decks, stripped off their coats, displayed white sweat shirts on which was splotched in red paint: END NAZI WAR MOVEMENTS DOWN WITH NAZI INTERVENTION IN SPAIN. Anti-Nazi pamphlets were handed...
...Kamenev: "I did not! I had no intention of writing an article." "I admit that I was the one with the greatest guilt in Kirov's death," went on Zinoviev, gradually getting into better & better voice until at last he thrust the microphone impulsively away from him and burst into the full-throated oratory of his younger days as Bomb Boy. The basso-profundo keynote of Zinoviev's confession came as he boomed: "I went all the way from party power to counterrevolution and terrorism and actually to Fascism! For Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism! I abandoned Karl...
...paying his first visit to Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition. Composed of as many women as men, among them a goodly proportion of Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...
Sifting of evidence as it gradually appeared made clear last week that the Revolution must have been carefully financed and planned in advance for it burst simultaneously during a single night in five cities of Spanish Morocco and at least twelve in Spain proper. At Madrid the sympathy of prominent Army figures with the Revolution was so marked that by last week distracted Premier Jose Giralt Pereira, a mild-mannered onetime apothecary, had progressively dismissed a total of 42 Spanish generals and was said to have left in his War Office not a single strategist or tactician of standing...