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...Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Arrangement | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...introduced his amendment 20 minutes after he had notified the leadership, ran it up for a shotgun vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: By the Flank | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Assistant Superintendent W. S. Neil knocked & knocked at the Scott door. He got no answer. Breaking in, he stumbled over an assortment of bloody articles: an ax, a hammer, two butcher knives, a shotgun barrel-and James Scales's discarded clothes. The bodies of Superintendent Scott's dying wife and dead 19-year-old daughter lay on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning in Bledsoe County | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine. The boy's eyeballs bled and he screamed: "Git my eyes, Pappy; they's rollin' off the bed." When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed and pleaded with him for two hours: "Here take this gun lest I change my mind-killin's too good for them Saxons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Walkin Preacher | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Look Out. In Tulsa, a "Let's Swap" column listed: "Exchange. Unused engagement and wedding rings. Want automatic shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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