Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the murder of the little Chancellor, just what would be the sporting thing to do, should you want to rid your nation of a dictator who substitutes machine gun and noose for public support...
...will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross the line. Says she: "If our teamwork is perfect we should hit the starting line at full speed just as the gun flashes. . . . Yes, you may be sure I won't wear trousers. ... I watch for the flash to start my watches as it takes several seconds for the sound to reach us. I'm so busy watching for the flash that I never see anything of the actual start...
First business of the day was to get a court martial busy trying the Dollfuss assassins. One ex-Sergeant Otto Planetta confessed to shooting the Chancellor. Said he: "Someone jogged my arm and the gun discharged. I then noticed what seemed to be only a shadow fall to the floor...
...fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through the head, one near the heart. Down the street two women were shot by mistake...
Murdered. John Lazia, 37, North Side Italian political boss of Kansas City, a ranking lieutenant of Missouri Democratic Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast; by two unidentified men wielding a machine-gun and a shotgun; in Kansas City. Lazia's underworld activities were chiefly characterized by his attempts to prevent major crimes and keep outside gunmen from Kansas City. His followers planned a $40,000 funeral...