Word: moran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
...loving Moran once set himself to find a needle in a haystack (time: 82 hours, 35 minutes); sold an icebox to an Eskimo; peddled advertising for display on barbershop ceilings...
...night last week, outside Mexico City headquarters of the Fascist Front for Unifying the Revolution, 3,000 Mexicans crowded to hear tirades by anti-Cárdenas speakers, one of whom was Juan Moran, a member of the dissolved Mexican Gold Shirts. They upbraided liberal President Lázaro Cárdenas, stormed against the Government's admission of 1,400 Italian and German veterans of the Spanish People's Army. But the bitterest of their abuse was directed against Mexico City's 15,000 Jews. "Jewish blood and more Jewish blood must flow!", screamed handbills which...
This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
...Moran Jr., accused of taking $36,000 in bribes from New York City's taxicab companies to influence legislation in their favor and help obtain a 1? reduction in the gasoline tax in 1936. Last week's indictment of Commissioner Harnett, which District Attorney Dewey said he had refrained from springing before the election, charged him also with taking bribes...