Word: terrorisms
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...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...
...partly responsible for the 'reign of terrer' in Nazi Germany," said Lord Dudley Marley, Vice-Chairman of the British House of Lords, and Chairman of the World Committee to Aid the Victims of the Nazi Regime. "We must not be fooled by Nazi censorship into thinking that the terror is over, for the torture is more brutal and there are more deaths from cruel treatment today than there were a year...
...earlier Erskine Caldwell, Georgia-born author, who wrote Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, novels dealing with the mudsills of Georgia's white society, started the rumpus by writing an article for the Communist New Masses, relating much the same facts, charging that a reign of terror for Negroes was afoot, and adding...
...Bucharest last week everyone was in terror of the Iron Guard. Had not a blue-swastikaed youth assassinated Premier Ion Duca (TIME, Jan. 8)? Had not another youngster burst in upon the Public Prosecutor as he was eating breakfast to scream: "I was an accomplice in Duca's assassination. Arrest me! Do your worst. Christ and Rumania!"? All Bucharest believed last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania...
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck...