Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the passage of the two amendments, all that seemed lacking to start another sectional war was someone to fire on Fort Sumter. Cooler Republican heads, notably Speaker Longworth's and Leader Tilson's, moved and carried an adjournment, then sought and found a way to repair the damage injudiciously done. When Congress reassembled, Floor Leader Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
Traditionally old have been the buildings in which famed newspapers started life. Usually they were fire traps. Always they were filled with more "atmosphere" than cleanliness, more musty files than modern conveniences. . . . Such a building was the ramshackle, rickety home of the Chicago Daily News. Its dim-lighted rooms, its narrow hallways, saw the birth of the Daily News-a tiny newspaper-in 1875, watched that newspaper grow to its circulation today of 450,000, local evening rival of The World's Greatest Newspaper (blatant Chicago morning Tribune...
Even at the last minute the conference lived up to its reputation for the unexpected. While the 14 delegates blinked at a battery of cameras, a short-circuited sunlamp set fire to one of the saffron window curtains. The 14 delegates sat, dignified and stately, while excited waiters and cameramen rushed about with fire extinguishers, put out the blaze...
From the burning centre of the earth a pillar of fire roared upward, burst through the crater's mouth, hurled itself against the satiny blackness of the sky. Huge volcanic missiles hissed through the air, making red wounds upon the face of the night. Scorching cinders curved outward in shimmering clouds and lava rushed over the volcano's jagged edges and started downward in an implacable, destroying stream. Vesuvius, terrible father of volcanoes, had unloosed his recurring wrath once more...