Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria, B. C. the President received a 21 gun salute, lunch at Government House, cheers from a crowd...
Embarrassed, Mr. Martin put his gun away, promising to meet the delegations later. But as word spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread that Homer Martin was setting the police on his own men-a more heinous labor crime than pulling a pistol...
...north of Huesca, there were until three weeks ago few formal fortifications, no trenches on this, the most scandalously inactive of all Spanish fronts. Last week's offensive has changed all that, but there is still no trench system. Defense is a matter of individual strong points and gun emplacements among the rocky precipitous hills. From ten miles north of Huesca half way down to Teruel, trenches begin in earnest. They have been dug with great enthusiasm, in systems two and three lines deep, but with little science. Dugouts are improperly constructed, firesteps and proper bays are lacking, connecting...
...merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics...
Unable to find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren...