Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story to the National Labor Relations Board was the wording of one section of the complaint-alleged employment of "armed guards, notorious criminals, gun-thugs commissioned as deputy sheriffs and other irresponsible ruffians for the express purpose of threatening, intimidating and coercing its employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease...
Towards evening they pulled up on a deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living...
...coward, Policeman Kelly shoved his gun into its holster and grabbed the two blackamoors by their belts. Something struck him-a knife, he thought-jab, jab, jab, seven times in the left side. Something cut gash after gash in his face. He staggered outside, managed to make it around the corner to the police station...
...gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality are less than $12,000. We have no jail because...
...Chinese military machine still is far from, ready, in the view of non-Chinese military experts. Many of its parts do not fit together. German gun carriages do not go with Czechoslovak guns. French cartridges are useless with British rifles. Italian-trained aviators do not understand the American planes they are asked...