Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first child: "I've seen many instances of unfairness in political campaigns but the effort of the Democratic party to saddle Mr. Hoover with complete responsibility for everything takes first rank among samples of conscious and unscrupulous partisan dishonesty." Calvin Coolidge fired the Republican's sunset gun by radio from Northampton. "For nearly 20 years," said he, "our President Herbert Hoover has been serving our country and the world. . . . If five Americans were to be selected today to devise remedies for the present condition of the country Herbert Hoover would head the list. The name of no other...
Eight years ago President Arturo Alessandri had to flee from Chile to Argentina, managed to do so in a special train flying the U. S. flag. Fortnight ago Chileans again elected him President (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week Santiago police had to fire machine gun bullets over the heads of a mob which wished to reject President-Elect Alessandri and raised deafening cheers for the defeated candidate, part-Irish Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay). With all Chile tense, wondering whether Col. Grove would try a coup d'état (as he has several times before) the world...
Suddenly an unearthly din disturbes the peaceful quiet of the night as the distant boom of a gun repounds through the hills. Bells in every division of barracks clang furiously. A group of men the Bell Cats start blowing bugles and beating on drums as if their very lives depended upon the ferociousness with which they did it. This is reveille at the United States Military Academy...
...deputy sheriff and the smalltown reporter elected to stay in the boat. With Wise carrying the submachine gun and Chesley a pistol (to signal the boat) they plunged into the willow tangles...
Izzy operated mostly in New York, but he was sent as far afield as Mobile, Detroit, Los Angeles. He never carried a gun, reports having been shot at only once, and that time the gun jammed. He had lots of fun with his job. At one German beer-garden, masquerading as a reveler, he made so much noise he was asked to sing a solo, which he did with great gusto. Then he announced: "This concludes the evening's entertainment, ladies & gentlemen. The place is pinched. For I am Izzy Einstein, the Prohibition Agent...