Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boundary without fortifications means." That same day his Secretary of the Navy promised to build a U. S. navy "second to NONE"(see col. 3). A destroyer whizzed the President to the U. S. S. Indianapolis, waiting in U. S. waters off Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration...
...plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that the noonday gun seemed a little late, went on with his work. Saving his breath, the Fascist officer picked the passport out of the fountain. Demetrio Solamon was later arrested in his hotel...
...with Administrator Sawyer, the President set up a Special Board for Public Works composed of Secretaries of Interior, War, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, the Attorney General, the Director of the Budget and Col. George R. Spalding, an Army river & harbor engineer who was embarrassed when the Press jumped the gun, reported he would get Col. Sawyer...
...concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...
...brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained on the destroyers. Every 20 feet stood a Chinese with a rifle, revolver, machine-gun or snickersnee. General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed...