Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union he delivered a message that was far less a communication than a challenge. It denounced "entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers," "discredited special interests," "political puppets of an economic autocracy." those who '" 'gang up' against the people's liberties." It was called the first gun of the campaign...
...State of the Union to Congress, but in entirely different terms. Not one opprobrious epithet did he hurl, not one ringing denunciation. His words were of reason and goodwill, his attitude of sweetness and light. This year's message might fitly have been described as the closing gun of the campaign...
...Knudsen: "Sit- downs are strikes. Such strikers are clearly trespassers and violators of the law of the land. We cannot have bona fide collective bargaining with sit-down strikers in illegal possession of plants. Collective bargaining cannot be justified if one party, having seized the plant, holds a gun at the other party's head...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...Kankakee, Ill. has been a -member of the Bar for 55 years, a judge for only three. During the three he has built up a State-wide reputation for unusual decisions. Last year, for example, he recommended the re-establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters and gun-toters. Last week he made a stir with one more resounding decision: that a person on roller skates is a "vehicle." Up before peppery Judge Hunter came the case of 12-year-old James Maas, crippled by the car of one J. O. Workman while roller-skating on the State highway...