Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close on the heels of the completion of lively sessions by the Model League of Nations, in the midst of similar gatherings of the Model Constitutional Convention, and jumping the gun on the Model Congress of the United States scheduled for the heat of Milwaukee's July, came word at a late hour last night, of plans for the holding of a Model Supreme Court on June...
Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
What particularly impresses one on reading the Burlingham speech is not just the fact that here is a liberal Democratic lawyer standing in the way of a liberal Democratic president on the issue of whether the Supreme Court should be compelled at the point of a gun to conform to the liberal doctrines of the current majority in power. For the country seems pretty well agreed at the moment that the tribunal could shift a long way to she left and still sit on the right of the Administration's political philosophy. Rather what takes...
...friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...
BEAT TO QUARTERS-C. S. Forester- Little, Brown ($2.50). Expert sea yarn in which an English frigate fights it out with a 50-gun Spanish warship on a strange mission to South America in Napoleon...