Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnapped in July 1933. After his release, Urschel recalled hearing a plane flying over his hideaway regularly at certain times of day. Working on that slender clue, the Government men tracked down Harvey Bailey on the Texas farm where Urschel had been held, found Mr. & Mrs. George R. ("Machine Gun") Kelly in Memphis. All three, with two accomplices, were given life sentences by a Federal judge in Oklahoma City. Bailey and Kelly are at Alcatraz Island, Calif...
...ingratiating smile and tried to chat. The Prince showed his displeasure. Still with the same smile, Mourner Carol turned to the President of France who froze him with a frown. After that there was nothing to do but wait until pallbearers carried out the casket, set it on a gun carriage...
...said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges...
...cruisers picked up the S. S. Conte Grande which was flying the yellow-&-white papal flag and bearing His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (TIME, Oct. 1). As the liner proceeded up the broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach...
...over in the mêleé. Fox Movietone's George Mejat ground away as the police hacked down the assassin, then fought to the side of the car for closeups of the dying King, wriggled away to focus on the bleeding assassin, and a closeup of his gun. Before the eyes of a half dozen cameras, the assassin was trampled to death by the crowd, and bystanders fell before a wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious films to Paris by air, hoping to catch the Bremen or Aquitania about to sail...