Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some critics say 10%; others go as high as 75%. But last week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm...
...Priest Ingersoll talked intimately of Hell Fire," but his son talked intimately of God.* Such was his son's intimacy that he scoffed at his Creator on all possible occasions, scoffed also at other creations of his Creator. Remembered now mainly for a tag about one born a minute which has been tied to his name, he was once notorious for his irreligion, notable for his oratory, famed for his political victories, defamed for drunken outbursts of atheism. Son of a Congregational minister, the future spellbinder was taken from Dresden, N.Y., to Wisconsin at 10, in 1843. The Illinois...
TIME is a crude affair. "While I was musing the fire burned...
Thus one of the least discussed (in U. S. history textbooks) issues of the War of 1812 was the movement (advocated by Henry Clay and other U. S. fire-eaters) for the annexation of Canada. During the war, however, the U. S. Canadian operations were a dismal failure, relieved chiefly by Perry's famed "We have met the enemy and they are ours" victory on Lake Erie...
...when Comrade Trotzky was forced to sign a pledge that he would not oppose or criticize the Stalin majority group. Last week this pledge seemed less than "a scrap of paper" as M. Trotzky stood up before the Comintern* and thundered opposition to Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy the Communist program of world revolution. Amid the stress...