Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...false peace which glossed over this bitter and unsettled maritime issue was typical of the situation on the entire main front of organized U. S. Labor. By last week it was clear that the Election, which temporarily obscured Labor's aims and aspirations, was only the starting gun for a Labor march up the avenue opened by the New Deal...
...said, but her two young daughters objected. Because of that, he believed, she had killed herself. Early last week a coroner and a police sergeant went to General Denhardt's farm to make a paraffin test of his hands* which would determine whether he had lately fired a gun...
Cannon banged out a 21-gun salute, steamboat whistles mooed deeply. Over the narrow gullies of narrow Manhattan, office workers industriously emptied their trash baskets over the automobile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Paris, loudspeakers brought a few polished French platitudes from President Lebrun. President Roosevelt spoke in kind. The occasion last week was the 50th anniversary of the most famed piece of sculpture in the Western Hemisphere: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 152-ft. Statue of Liberty. The statue was decorated for its birthday with an enormous U. S. flag hanging from the upraised torch...
...person next day if necessary. Angrily Judge W. Calvin Chesnut snapped that Mr. Chrysler had best consider that it was necessary. Chief Gabrielson: "All citizens are equal under the Law." Next day a nervous Mr. Chrysler faced a scowling judge and in barely audible tones confessed to the unplugged gun charge. "Of course I should have known," said he, "but Pritchett is supposed to look out for these things...
Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...