Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved the note to Britain, but Poland was wobbly. Foreign Minister Barthou hopped a train for Warsaw to see what he could do to bring...
Next day the public schools opened as usual, laid plans to run extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...Four men entered Pana, Ill. early one morning last week, ate a good breakfast and then drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
...point of a submachine gun three robbers held up Bank of Montgomery, Grant County, La., departed with an undetermined amount of loot. The bank's president swore the leader was John Dillinger's "living image...
...Paul, Minn., April 23--John Dillinger and his band of outlaws fought the federal government to a standstill today in a series of gun battles which brought death to two men and serious injury to four others. Dillinger and his pal last were reported near St. Paul...