Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trials, but there was more trouble ahead. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1940 after a surprising political comeback, he faced a "moral turpitude" accusation. The Senate Elections Committee voted 13-3 to exclude him, after the majority agreed that his record was studded with "gross impropriety, lawlessness, shotgun law enforcement" and property deals which amounted to "briberies." Despite all this, the Senate as a whole finally seated him by a vote...
...daily, Financier Fox not only bought a hoary tradition, but the weirdest-looking Page One in the U.S. The Post (circ. 306,383) averages as many as 20 stories on the front page, most of them under headlines that look as if they had been made up with a shotgun. But with it Fox also got a paper which is second biggest in New England, has made plenty of money in the past, when it often outshone all its rivals for enterprise, high jinks and beats...
...those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led Galveston citizens in keeping order after the 1900 hurricane. Said a longtime friend and Texas judge: "If ever saber rattling passes from the earth, it will be because of the Henry Cohens...
...dusk fell next day, 200 troopers, carrying wicker shields to ward off sticks and stones, marched into Serowe. Some had fixed bayonets, others heavy pick handles. Colonel Langley himself carried a sawed-off shotgun. This time the cops were rougher. They stormed into mud huts, boxed their occupants' ears, beat up all who resisted a search for beer and weapons. By nightfall, 41 Bamangwato, including four royal princes, were penned in a stockade near Batho...
Ever since he took over the New Orleans Item three years ago, Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern has faced a double-barreled shotgun in the hands of his competition. Rival Publisher Leonard K. Nicholson used both his New Orleans morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States to keep Stern's afternoon Item in check. Two years ago Stern found an ally, when the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against Nicholson's papers. The Government's main charge: unfair competition by Nicholson, because he forced advertisers to put ads in both his papers, even if they wanted to advertise...