Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large...
...finally, the Round Table breaks down, enough spontaneous violence is expected to give His Majesty's Government enough provocation to use at strategic points the weapon of massacre, so effective when Brigadier-General Dyer sprayed with machine gun bullets and killed some 400 Indians at Amritsar in 1919. General Dyer received the censure of the House of Commons by a vote of 230 to 129, was endorsed by the House of Lords 129 to 86, and finally accepted from the Morning Post a large sum of money spontaneously made up by individual Britons...
...acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after his recognition by the U. S., a General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have succeeded ailing President Chacon but for the fact that he had recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan...
...they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games), he keeps at Pelican Lake his countless trophies and his guns, among them a $2,000 elephant gun. Also he maintains there a zoo. In his editors, Publisher Fawcett insists upon what he calls "the divine spark." If one must be discharged, it is with reluctance-"to have his divine spark adjusted...
...Conference approved the Leopold committee's plan. It also: adopted a resolution to bring about laws stopping the sale of black bass in the ten states which permit it ; recommended to the Secretary of Agriculture that beginning February 1932 repeating shotguns be restricted to three shots per loading. Gun manufacturers are willing to cooperate. Among famed conservationists at the game conference were Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Resources; Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, president of National Association of Audubon Societies; Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Senate Commission on Migratory Bird Conservation...