Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who regards himself as a Republican big gun since his victory in Michigan last autumn, laid down the first major bombardment. As became a man with Presidential aspirations, it was 15.000 words long...
...Borah's inquiry was only the opening gun of a Republican bombardment. The Republicans had held a caucus and for once found themselves in some unanimity. The thing they were most unanimous about was that the $4.000,000,000 ought to be spent not later than June 30, 1936, instead of 1937 as specified in the bill. On that point their unanimity could do them no possible good, because the Democratic majority, disunited as they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should...
...triple-header bill of, boxing, wrestling, and basketball, Crimson and Green intramural and Jayvee teams will clash in the second annual Harvard-Dartmouth indoor winter sports meet this Saturday. The three-cornered battle will take place in the Indoor Athletic Building with the starting gun scheduled for 7.30 o'clock and the tariff placed at 25 cents...
...Connor's doubt about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear gas gun...
...reach the Mayor's desk last week was a photograph of a new summer uniform. It showed a gangling rawboned constable smiling toothily in a pith helmet, a light shirt trimmed with dark collar, cuffs and tie, shorts, golf stockings, and black and white sport shoes. A huge gun hung half way down to his knees...