Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens The Literary Digest last week began mailing ballots for its third national Prohibition poll. Unlike its last ballot, scattering votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. ¶ After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused...
...Desired "to acknowledge with pro found thanks the reception which has been accorded to me by this country. I accept it as proof of their loyalty and devotion to the Crown." ¶ Announced negotiations had been be gun with the U. S. for completion of the St. Lawrence waterway. ¶ Determined "to maintain a policy of rigid economy, consistent with the dis charge of those . . . obligations, which is essential to preservation of the integrity and credit of the Dominion." ¶ soundness" Rejoiced of over Canada's the finances. "fundamental...
...helium nucleus of four protons is clumsy chain-shot for atomic bombardment. Drs. Tuve, Hafstad & Dahl now surpass radium by shooting single protons from their gun. By means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...
Last week Publisher Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who murdered a policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours...
...Gun" refused to see Miss Walsh (his comment: "The hell with her") ; but to the end he supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for you." (The warden, for the first time in his twelve years administration, did not attend the execution.) He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died...