Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittston, Pa., where hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
Thus Il Duce weaseled in a reminder that Italians Sacco & Vanzetti were executed despite protests from almost every European nation. That Italy would follow in the independent lead of the U. S. in administering her internal affairs was his clear & clever implication...
...miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...prestige of the Nationalist Government has recently been enhanced by visits to Nanking from the Japanese, British and French ministers accredited to Peking; and last week U. S. Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray followed their lead and began a tour through Nationalist territory...
...careful. Mr. Goodwin as the New England agent for the Elcar is giving the other side too much of a chance to steal his thunder; the primary campaign in itself promises plenty of sound and fury; and if it becomes a business struggle, Governor Fuller has a tremendous lead for even his pugnacious rival to overcome...