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...spoke of the world-wide movement of the Soviet government to spread propaganda and sow discord. "There never was a time in the history of this country when there was so much need for red-blooded Americanism. The Soviet government is responsible for the Wall Street bomb, and they paid, for that. And if I had my way about it, I'd index every alien in this country; and for those who are seeking, to overthrow the country, I'd drive them out and send them back where they belong". In speaking of the younger generation, Mr. Burns said...
...cases undertaken as president of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, the Wall Street bomb explosion is the most famous one Mr. Burns has undertaken recently. He was on the scene of the explosion one minute after it occurred with a score of men; at that time he told the reporters that it was a plan of the communist government to startle the world. The Burns Agency has been making a worldwide search for the perpetrators of the explosion, and, it is claimed, are slowly rounding them...
...more recent cases, the Wall Street bomb explosion is by far his most famous one. One minute after the explosion occurred, Detective Burns was on the scene with a score of men; he told the reporters at that time it was a plan of the communist government to startle the world. Upon the evidence of witnesses, a composite picture of the man who drove the dynamite wagon was made, but all efforts to locate him were unsuccessful. The Burns Agency is still on the track of the criminals...
President is to be congratulated: he is apparently not afraid to speak out when be thinks it necessary. He is the first Chief Executive since the beginning of the century who has cared to speak definitely on a subject which is as liable to prove a boomerang as a bomb...
...advances daily nearer. General Maitrot, a Frenchman, has made a forecast of the future that is half vision and half possibility. France, he says, has since the armistice developed projectiles so powerful that a dozen of them would wipe out a city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information of this-are no more idle, the Krupp engineers have completed a 309 mm. quick-firing, soundless gun. They are working on a model...