Word: guns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was, however, a pause after the 21st boom, which divided the 40 detonations into a 21-gun salute for President William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, and a 19-gun salute for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, both on board the cruiser...
...prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
...durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
...scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...
Last week, there came to Castle Achmacarry one Walter Clark Teagle, president of the greatest of U. S. oil companies, Standard Oil of New Jersey. He carried a gun. But his friends were not alarmed. They recalled that Oilman Teagle and Oilman Deterding, mighty rivals, were yet friends. They remembered that Oilman Teagle had tried to be peacemaker in the recent Indian oil war between Royal Dutch and Standard Oil of New York. They guessed the two chiefs would discuss ways and means of persuading Soviet Russia to compensate U. S., British and Dutch companies for confiscated oil wells...