Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plowing down on her out of the fog on the port side. The Chicago reversed engines, blared a long shrill collision call. The Silver Palm tried to stop. With a metallic crash her prow rammed 18 feet deep into the side of the Chicago just forward of the first gun turret. Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death. The Navy Department immediately ordered an investigation but could not find or identify the missing brown ship which had caused the accident...
...collision seemed likely to reopen an old controversy over the 8-in.-gun cruisers of which the Chicago is one of ten. When the first eight were built, in conformity with the London Naval Treaty, five of them had to be altered because of sternpost trouble. They were severely criticized by Admiral William Veazie Pratt, naval adviser at the 1930 London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were...
...Last night when Coach Eddie Bradford stepped on the self-starter of his automobile, a loud crash burst on the stillness of the Cambridge evening. The whole rear-end of his Ford rose in the air and clouds of smoke enveloped the car: then a series of staccato machine-gun blasts; then silence...
...airplane). At Houston in 1928 he threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher acquitted of murder, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel. Last year he was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon, now supervises Texas patronage distribution. He sends long night letters to President Roosevelt at least twice a week. Once in a while sleepy telegraph operators at Fort Worth are roused...
...from 85 yd. Michigan went over, around and through Cornell's line about as it pleased before it was done, 40-to-0 The "strongest Stanford team since the days of Ernie Nevers" journeyed to Chicago, plowed to Northwestern's 1-yd. line where the half-time gun stopped it, went home sharing a 0-to-0 tie. St. Mary's was the last team to beat Southern California, back in 1931. When they met again last week Left End Can-rinus, who made the winning touchdown two years ago, snagged a 50-yd. forward pass...