Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members in the coming session. We leave what's left of the depression, With fifty thousand tomes appended, Telling just how it can be ended. To Congressmen who'll draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying...
Married. Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaughter of the late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club...
...stifle the bootlegger the President takes over the liquor trade as a Federal monopoly, packs the Supreme Court with his supporters to forestall legal hitches. When the President's pretty young secretary, inadvertently visiting relatives in Jersey City, is horribly wounded by gunmen, he adroitly capitalizes the red-hot indignation of her fiancé by making him chief of a federalized police force to root out crime and racketeering. Chicago becomes the scene of siege operations as the Federal "Green Jackets" bomb under-worldlings out of their fortified lairs. Meanwhile Washington has superseded State authority by its power...
...their big-brained relative, man. . . . For untold millions of years the long line of vertebrates that led toward man was of unblushing thieves and robbers. Even now, the human face beneath its smiling mask carries the old mammalian trap set with sharp teeth. ... No wonder we suffer from grafters, gunmen and racketeers. The wonder is, not that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends began to operate. Such...
Most bank robberies are not executed so slickly as that. For the twelve months ending last August the American Bankers Association reported that three bank employes, two customers, nine peace officers and 38 gunmen had been killed in bank stickups, 124 persons wounded in the gunplay. In the same period bank robberies throughout the land totaled 631-a record. Gross loss was $3,384,117. All but 77 of the robberies were committed in broad daylight...