Word: pistolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, Republican Boss John Henry Roraback ruled Connecticut. Last week, aged 67, he killed himself. The suicide, with a pistol at his hunting lodge after a morning's target practice, was an act of strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians...
...court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
After the half hour's review, the unit will break up into sections for individual drills. Service of the piece, equitation, harnessing, setting up communications systems firing a Trainer gun, and pistol practice are among the pastimes which will be engaged in for about an hour...
...show will start at 2:15 o'clock. After a half hour's review, the classes will split up for individual drills. Freshmen will engage service of the piece, equitation, and pistol practice, Sophomores in harnessing and communications, and Juniors in firing the Field Artillery Trainer gun and computing firing data...
Seniors running the individual drills will be: Gaffney, service of the piece, Wendell, equitation, Williams, harnessing, Clifton F. Kann, communications, Malcolm S. M. Watts Jr., pistol practice. Brigham, firing Trainer, and William F. Renner, computing firing data. Color Guards will be Richard M. Walsh Jr. '37 and Henry M. Adlis '37, while the Color Bearers will include Richard S. Lovering Jr. '37 and Renner...