Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...
...later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets had slain Correspondent Stephens. The Japanese command soon said these had been fired at Chinese (an impossibility, considering the terrain), heaved Japanese sighs at "the passing of this distinguished British journalist...
That the Baltimore resolution was merely the first gun in a bombardment from the whole U. S. labor front was indicated by prompt applause from both of U. S. Labor's bitterly warring factions. President William Green of A. F. of L. said it "fairly represented the attitude of American labor." President Francis J. Gorman of C. I. O.'s United Textile Workers "reminded" the Windsors that Efficiency Expert Bedaux "made his money from the sweat of the textile workers...
...pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
...Youngstown, Ohio, Charles Westlake sat in a cinema theatre, wriggled, suddenly was shot in the back by his own gun which slipped from his pocket...