Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned out to be a son-of-a-gun...
...tribe of headhunters, who pick off two of the passengers, the mobster and the jailer, and beat war drums for the rest. When the patched-up plane is finally ready for a takeoff, only enough gas is left to carry four, and the boy. The anarchist pulls a gun, takes the law into his own hands, watches the right five safely...
...most U. S. cinemaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangsters' weapon. The late black-browed John Dillinger, potbellied "Killer" Burke, the late Charlie Birger of Southern Illinois were virtuosos with the Thompson, called it, with utility in mind, a chopper. But gangsters got their choppers by stealing them from policemen who had found them wonderfully effective for erasing hoodlums from the public slate. For the Thompson, only a few ounces heavier than a Springfield rifle, is an amazingly potent weapon...
...when Annapolis Man John Blish and West Pointer John Taliafer Thompson whipped up the first submachine gun, they knew they had something. By the time Commander Blish died in 1926, Brigadier General Thompson, full of honors from long service, had long since retired from the army to become chief advisory engineer of Auto-Ordnance Co. Chief financial backers were Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan, who held 51% of the stock, and George Harvey, who held a smaller block. Onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Harvey went to his grave soft-pedaling his interest in the company which...
...police forces, to private protective agencies (which now have to get approval of the U. S. Attorney General for purchase of a Tommy gun), to the U. S. Marines, to many a European and South American army, Thompsons were sold. The General's son, Colonel Marcellus H. Thompson, third in the family line to graduate from West Point, resigned from the army and went into the business as vice president and general manager...