Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes in for the lion's share of criticism in the Committee report. The shaft leveled at the section men hits an evil as troublesome as ever but one which it should be easy to correct. It is a commentary upon the workings of University Hall that the opening gun of last year's report, the recommendation that teaching ability be made the chief criterion in choosing section men for this course, should have to be sounded off again in the new report. The lack of coordination between section men, with the attendant evils of gaping differences in assignments...
...wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against no enemy but Nature, ended in the death of all but six of his 24 men (TIME. April...
...politician is a form of political suicide," declared one of Alf Landon's supporters, wise old William Allen White of Emporia last month. "Hearst is a hitch-hiker on the Landon bandwagon. Sooner or later Landon will have to throw him off or feel Hearst's gun in his ribs. For his own good luck-the sooner the better...
...young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine gun, now standard equipment in two of the world's biggest armies, French and Japanese...
...Benet resigned as Hotchkiss managing director before he left, but his permanent successor has not yet been named. The company's most profitable product is its machine gun, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report...