Word: etowah
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains in and had rushed at him with a hunk of concrete in his upraised hands. A hung jury left Ivins...