Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his new Government is far too chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts of mutual assistance, as are France...
Towed stealthily up the Monongahela aboard two barges, they arrived at Home stead at 4 a. m. on July 6. The workers, massed along the river with their women & children, were ready for them. As the first detectives stepped ashore, someone banged a gun. At that the Pinkerton army fired a volley into the crowd and one of the bloodiest battles in U. S. Labor history was on. It lasted until 5 o'clock that afternoon. When it was over three detectives, seven workers lay dead...
...again Madrid felt better, though in that capital alone 100,000 workers of various sorts were striking. The railways were threatened with a strike likely to tie up all Spain. In a now typical instance of Madrid political carnage last week, three Fascists were mowed down by a machine-gun spitting from a presumptively Socialist...
Next day two Socialists were killed and four wounded by machine-gun bullets from a speeding car presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia...
...British Open was a U. S. monopoly from 1924 to 1934. Last week Gene Sarazen, who won in 1932, borrowed "the brazen serpent," 35-year-old gun-metal putter which Britain's Allan Graham used when he beat Bobby Jones in 1921. Needing 69 to tie, he got 73 on his last round, finished in a tie for fourth place...