Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff...
Publisher Copley's only recourse then was the Press, to "minimize as far as possible" damage "which can never be repaired." Through newsgatherers he challenged Senator Norris to come out from behind Senatorial immunity and repeat his charges. "If he will state this outside the Senate, I will bring him promptly before a Court of Justice." Then, describing himself as an "oldfashioned American citizen," he continued...
...Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind...
Suddenly from the rocks behind and above came the smash of rifle fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule...