Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AFTER TERROR Thus read a one-column headline in the Kansas City Star one clay last week. Another in an adjacent column read...
...possibly greater orgy of slaughter. They have won the gratitude of the German capitalists and munitions makers by driving down the living standards of the German workers to starvation levels, and they are attempting, though with decreasing success, to stifle the manifestations of struggle against this terror on the part of the German tolling masses. At the same time they are busily sending their representatives throughout the world, making their alliances for future wars, and attempting the not too difficult task of convincing the capitalists of the rest of the world not to fear the protests of the liberals...
...months the Midwest has cringed under a reign of terror. For every kidnapping and extortion reported in the Press, perhaps a dozen others went unrecorded as respectable citizens had their first terrifying contact with crime and kept mum about it. Last week a new chapter in the history of Midwest crime was being forced upon them, a chapter less terrifying to most men individually, but one that reached unmatched heights of daredevil ruthlessness. It was the third chapter in the career of Desperado John Dillinger...
...given A hostage knows All ways of dying Terror shows...
...night watchman to a room containing fire extinguishers but it was locked. Overhead 100 sleeping men, wards of the Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies-seven black, seven white. Three others died later. From Washington Relief Administrator Hopkins promptly dispatched a special agent to investigate the Federal Government's worst relief disaster...