Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight for the cab, swerved clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went...
...this melodramatic tale (adapted from Author Sir Philip Gibbs's novel, Fellow Prisoners), the entire prison camp escapes. Howard, who has given the gentlemanly Commandant (Paul Lukas) his word not to try to escape, tricks the gate guard down from his parapet, kills him with his own gun, mans the parapet machine-gun. Thus covered the other prisoners stampede the remaining guards, bowl over the gates and swarm to the nearby airdrome. All together they fly home while Hero Howard stays at his parapet post until blown up, thus giving his wife to Fairbanks and keeping his word...
...made a huge loan to Detroit's big banks he would "denounce it from the housetops," but he asserted Washington officialdom from President Hoover down was opposed to the loan and for the same reason: inadequate security. The R. F. C., he said, was gun-shy after the public furor over Charles Gates Dawes's $90,000,000 loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral offered had been stripped from the sound banks in the Guardian...
...Palace, despite the menace of the guns, President Machado could not believe that his Army & Navy-well paid while other Cuban Government employes have gone unpaid for months-had turned against him. He ordered his car, ordered War Minister Herrera into it, set off guarded by a machine gun squad to talk to the rebellious officers, who had gathered outside Havana at Camp Columbia. Promises, threats and a storm of rage from President Machado produced no result. The officers stood sullen until finally Lieut.-Colonel Julio Sanguilly, Chief of Aviation at Camp Columbia, spoke: "With all respect, General Machado...
...excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police grew more & more frantic. When strikers forced shopkeepers to close their doors, Police Chief Antonio Ainciart set out with a machine gun squad. Swearing blue blazes he brandished a big pistol under shopkeepers' noses, compelled them to open up-until a few minutes after he had left when they tremblingly lowered the steel shutters in front of their windows again. Police on the loose peppered the shutters of several shops with...