Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were "hot" elsewhere so long as they behaved themselves decently within the city limits. This easy-going relationship lasted a generation, and the O'Connor tradition did not die when he did in 1924. Such latter-day bad men as the late Homer Van Meter and "Machine Gun" Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed. In little more than three years St. Paul has been the scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation's poison spot...
...Wall, shut and sandbagged the central gate and answered the attackers' fire. The train ground to a stop, began backing up, backed out into the night. Past midnight it came chugging back, this time spitting bullets from every window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally into the way of a trench mortar shell that fell short. After a while the steel train backed sulkily off again. Twice more, at dawn and at 7:40 a. m., the train lunged at Peiping...
Thirty-seven years ago the Hai Chi, British-made, and the Hai Shen, German-made, were first class war boats. The Hai Chi, refitted in 1927, is theoretically still the heaviest (4,300 tons), fastest (24 knots) and best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap...
...scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity...
...facts," SEC subpoenaed Mr. Jones to appear for a hearing last week. Mr. Jones sent his lawyer. The Commission refused to listen to that gentleman until he asked if he could withdraw the application. Uprose SECounsel John J. Burns to bellow: "You can't go up under the gun of a stop order and then seek to avoid...