Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty Fayette mines closed down. Picket lines were formed. Deputy sheriffs shot down four strikers. Frick Coke was accused of importing gunmen from New York-a charge its president hotly denied. Strikers sniped at mine guards, nearly killed one. All the makings for an ugly labor war were at hand...
...Oklahoma City, rich Oilman Charles F. Urschel, whom gunmen snatched from a family card game on his own front porch, turned up after nine days captivity. His family admittedly paid ransom, kept silence for eight hours to let the kidnappers get away...
...Simultaneously Bugs Ahearn learns that his new brokerage business is dishonestlv bankrupt, that his fiancee is unfaithful. He imports his entire Chicago staff, sells back the brokerage business with the aid of machine guns, gets engaged to his secretary, turns his private polo field into a playground for his gunmen. Briskly directed by Roy Del Ruth, all this makes a highly satisfactory addition to the Robinson series on racketeers at work and play, at home and abroad-a series which may eventually be regarded as the most interesting and most typical in the U. S. cinema of its period. Good...
President Machado's own police were not safe from President Machado's gunmen. Despite denials from frightened neighbors and government officials, U. S. correspondents took enough stock in the battle of the Sixth Police Station to cable full details north: Two armed soldiers swung up in a car, rushed into the building and emerged in a few minutes with three uniformed policemen and two plainclothesmen. Following the honored formula, the five were told to run, were shot in the back. But the plainclothesmen had not been sufficiently searched. They returned the fire. Before they too fell, the soldiers...
...Chicago, while Barbara Chick was filling cafeteria sugar bowls, two gunmen came in, demanded the money from the cash register. Said she, "Get it yourself. This place is cafeteria style...