Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without a word to the Chancellor Nazi gunmen shot him down, first bullet in the chest, second in the neck, as he threw up his arms and fell, crying "Help...
...Italian political boss of Kansas City, a ranking lieutenant of Missouri Democratic Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast; by two unidentified men wielding a machine-gun and a shotgun; in Kansas City. Lazia's underworld activities were chiefly characterized by his attempts to prevent major crimes and keep outside gunmen from Kansas City. His followers planned a $40,000 funeral...
...necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...
...deliberately fomenting breaches of the peace is concerned, U. S. arms makers might echo Bannerman & Sons' conscious innocence: "No firearms are ever sold in our store to any minor. We will not sell weapons to anyone who we think would endanger the public safety." Machine-gunmen get their "typewriters" from abroad, probably from Belgium. But Seldes accuses U. S. armament makers (Bethlehem Steel et al.) of profiteering and connivance, thinks the answer to the arms makers' dangerous dominance is government-owned munitions factories...
...March 3. Police in Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger was one of the men, that a picture of him as a sailor and some of his fingerprints were left in the apartment...