Word: mcmahon
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...cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice. Next Father Coughlin delivered a "schoolroom lecture" on economics, finance and the iniquity of the Federal Reserve System for creating false money "with a fountain pen and a piece of paper." The Convention's chairman, Cleveland Lawyer Sylvester McMahon, pronounced it "the greatest speech ever delivered on this mundane sphere.'' Following the day, the Union was "democratized" by the unanimous adoption of a constitution providing that its president should be elected in convention from among its trustees. Father Coughlin was unanimously elected president to serve until another president should...
...York Times hazarded the bold guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
...Street Police Court Herbalist McMahon kept repeating dully that he never meant to shoot, that his gesture was merely a "protest." On the blotter he was charged with "unlawfully having in his possession a loaded Chicago Arms Co. revolver with intent to endanger life and property...
...which makes it a crime punishable by flogging and 20 years imprisonment to aim a gun at the Sovereign. It dates from the last of five attempts (in 1882) to assassinate Good Queen Victoria, has never been enforced. Wiseacres wagered that there would be no trial, that Herbalist McMahon would be slipped quietly into an asylum...