Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City early one June morning last year, four Federal agents, two local detectives and an Oklahoma police officer led a runaway convict named Frank Nash out of Union Station to a waiting car. As they were getting in, machine gun fire mowed down Frank Nash, all three policemen, one Federal agent. Terrified bystanders hardly noticed the killers as they fled from the second largest gangster killing on record.* Not until last month did Federal or State officers have a shred of courtworthy evidence in the Union Station case. Then police picked up a sniveling little gangster named Michael LaCapra...
...once from Kansas City. Bridges and highway junctions were barricaded and guarded. State patrolmen scooted up & down all main roads. A National Guard plane, fitted with a two-way radio and a machine gun, was sent from St. Louis. Yet through this massed force of the Law, Floyd and his two companions filtered northward to Minnesota, only to cut back into Iowa, and down to Missouri. Near Mexico, Mo., a salesman reported that he had been forced at gun's point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace...
...line was a second line of Republican Guards, with a row of plainclothes detectives stationed between the two. Thus last week did France bury her great Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou. All the diplomats who stood bareheaded under the grey sky, all the regiments that marched past the flag-draped gun carriage, all the black crowd that stretched away for blocks had but one idea: Louis Barthou and Alexander of Jugoslavia would not have been shot down last fortnight in Marseilles if police had taken proper precautions;* Louis Barthou would not have died if a flustered bystander had placed the temporary...
...remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would fit on a Jugoslav gun carriage...
...object of the Department of Military Science and Tactics to give ROTC students practice with this set of guns, in order that they may become acquainted with the use of the panoramic sight and gun squad work under almost actual conditions. While the pieces have a wide range of dispersion, due to the cylindrical contour of the projectile, it is nevertheless possible to hit a "house" three inches high at a distance of 75 yards...