Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington and the country a remarkable demonstration of mob management without benefit of tear gas, riot club or machine gun...
Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...
...Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
...with a machine-gun held up the State Bank of Clearing, 111., made off with $60,000 in cash. Last April officials of the bank identified as the gang's leader one Daniel McGeoghegan, once condemned to death or murder, a hoodlum and beer runner on the Chicago Crime Commission's list of public enemies...
...when he is faced with a machine-gun, your honor," ominously replied the Assistant State's Attorney...