Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Morgenthau became Secretary of the Treasury he had many things to learn about finance. To his surprise he also discovered that among his employes were about 3,000 men who carried pistols-most of whom were sorry pistol shots. So in 1935 Mr. Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy...
...made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
...Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium and heroin openly at cut rates in paper packets selling for as little as 5? Chinese (1?). This is against the law but the peddlers go about pistol-on-hip, while Chinese policemen have been deprived of firearms by the Japanese...
...talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost three hours' deliberation found Donald "not guilty by reason of insanity...
There were three events, in which 11 members of the pistol team participated. First, the sharpshooters had to fire at a target 50 feet distant while sighting and aiming the pistol was reversed in so doing...