Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peru last week and the nation went into mourning for three days. Five-foot flat and mostly Indian, a pocket wildcat of a man, President Sanchez Cerro was wounded in five places and lost three fingers of his left hand when he seized the spitting muzzle of a machine gun in his bare hands and turned it on the Government forces in overthrowing President Billinghurst in 1914. In 1921 they shot him full of holes again when he captured Lima in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow President Leguia. In semi-exile abroad he served with the Spanish Foreign Legion...
Thus with all solemnity last week Britain cocked the loaded gun Ramsay MacDonald had been given against the trial of six Metropolitan-Vickers engineers for sabotage and espionage. The engineers' sentences were light: acquittal for one, banishment for three, prison terms of two and three years for Engineers MacDonald and Thornton, respectively, whose amazing confessions were never properly explained during the trial (TIME, April 24). Therefore the gun was not fired at once, but it was carefully aimed...
...first gun of the day was fired when Lampoon editors laid siege to the CRIMSON building at 5.15 o'clock in the morning and commenced a futile search for the morning's papers which they intended to stamp "Compliments of the Lampoon." Disappointed and infuriated by their failure to find the sheets which had previously been hidden, their numbers now increased to ten, the invaders took their revenge by binding and gagging J. M. Boyd '35, CRIMSON editor, who was at the time working in the building. In spite of the gallant attempt at rescue made by R. P. Buch...
...loaded gun that Prime Minister MacDonald asked for-power to declare an embargo on Soviet goods-was charged by Commons last week. The gun was charged for just one purpose: to save the lives of six electrical engineers held for trial in Moscow on charges of espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27, April 10). Because of the obvious danger to British trade from the gun's recoil if fired, the embargo enabling act was limited to three months, and hints were scattered in all directions that the embargo would not be declared at all UNLESS...
Thoughtfully considering the size of Britain's embargo gun, Moscow authorities proceeded with plans for the trial of the British engineers but made several concessions. All but one of the prisoners, W. H. MacDonald, were released on bail. Though they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk...