Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss of 23 lives...
Graven and seered upon Hungarian souls are bitter memories of the "Red Terror" to which all Hungary was subjected for 143 days, in 1919, during the Communist regime of the notorious, fat, spiderlike Bela...
...sought to break down the sanctity of religion, patriotism and morality in Hungary, to make way for Communism. For example, he caused to be exhibited to children in the public schools a cinema depicting persons of opposite sex in promiscuous conjunction. Other and more violent phases of the "Red Terror" gave Hungarians such a sickening belly-full of Communism that they overthrew the Kun regime by a "White Terror" and constitute today the most conservative if not reactionary nation in Europe...
When Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary heard that Bela Kun was under lock & key in Vienna, he formally demanded his extradition into Hungary to face charges of having ordered the execution of 144 Hungarians during the 143 days of "Red Terror." Meanwhile, at Vienna, Russian Soviet Agents were said to be offering fat contracts to Austrian industry as an inducement to persuade the Austrian Government to "deport" Bela Kun back to Russia...
While the eyes of the world were sweeping the Atlantic, anxious, fearful of the fate of two flying Germans and an Irishman, a tiny plane droned its way across the unknown waste and terror of the Arctic. Impervious to disappointment, danger, tragedy, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson took off unannounced from Point Barrow, Alaska, came down for five dismal days on uninhabited Doedmansoeira (Dead Man's Island), arrived last week triumphant at the haven of Spitzbergen...