Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which the New Deal can answer only by "the smoke screen of personalities" and the "squirt gun of propaganda...
...thousand gun salute to that brilliant Princeton brain which conceived the idea of organizing the Veterans of Future Wars, and the short-lived sister organization, the Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars (TIME, March...
...20th Century "Don Quixote" packed with the dynamite of "war babies" turning the guns of ridicule on the goosestepping, gun-toting generation which splashed through the biggest bloodbath in history-and emerged crying for more...
...Ohio Gun. As the opening gun of the Borah campaign in the Ohio primary (May 12), the Youngstown meeting was important if not very inspiring. Snow kept away several hundred reserved-seat holders. Instead of the 4,500 people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last...
...Capital Ships of over 35,000 tons each; Aircraft Carriers of over 23,000 tons; Class "A" Cruisers of 10,000 ton; Class "B" Cruisers of over 8,000 tons; Destroyers of over 3,000 tons or Submarines of over 2,000 tons. Similarly there is limitation of the gun calibres of each of the foreign types of ships. Thus no Capital Ship is to have guns of more than 16 in. calibre, no Submarine guns of more than...