Word: hang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech last September threatening to hang his enemies that brought Father Dunphy back into action. He chided the President from his pulpit. "It is not Christian," he wrote to El Pueblo, "for those in high places to foment or incite to civil war. Nor is it Christian to elevate hatred to the extreme of wanting to annihilate those who hold differing opinions...
German equivalent of "Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...
...Hang an Editor. In the bad old days, says Bruce, editors shot at each other on the streets as often as they did in print. One is reported to have kept a card over his desk: "Subscriptions received from 9 to 4; challenges from 11 to 12 only!" A newsman who was slow on the draw had no future. (But editors were careful not to shoot a subscriber...
...kind. It did, in fact, create the Air Force as a separate arm (thus putting three battlers into the ring instead of two). At the insistence of the Navy, the act precluded real unity in operations by proclaiming that the Navy should keep its air arm and hang on to the Marines (a land force). The Secretaries of the three services were given the specific right-which they freely exercised-to bypass the Defense Secretary and carry their special pleading to the President and the Director of the Budget. They could always directly influence Congress and its committees...
Fine Opportunity. Nevertheless, Murray's action came as a shock to Wolchok and Altman, who had hoped for aid and sympathy from Murray, not liquidation. Murray's order did not dissolve Wolchok's union; Sam would be allowed to hang on to as many of his members as he could. But in the face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers...