Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After sitting for a time in his law office, chucking out politicians who seek to corrupt his legal talents, Cagney joins the Department of Justice to avenge a gang-slaughter comrade. This Sir Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most...
...Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment, after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back to the Front for an atack which the colonel knows is suicidal and which is stopped almost before it is started by a nearly complete slaughter of the few men who manage to get out of the trench. The commander orders a court martial to try one man from each company in the attacking battalion for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline...
...reactionaries then triumphed, and these names been excluded, Harvard would have been long in living down the just accusation that she hated her enemies more than she hated needless human slaughter. Similarly when redbaiters, more fanatical than any red, forget that they are first men, and that only second are they Liberal, Conservative, Red, Republican, or Democrat, then those immoderate haters only show the shallowness of their own humankind-ness...
...Gimbel would not stand any longer the slaughter by Mr. Kaufmann of efficient and loyal Philadelphia executives. Mr. Gimbel expects Wall Street experts, lawyers, bankers and accountants to combine in an effort to throw him out of the business, but he is confident that in the end the stockholders or bondholders or the courts will sustain his position...
...between Manila and the great U.S.-owned Calamba sugar estates, actual battle was pitched. Under a woman named Salud Argrave, several hundred Cabuyao rebels took over the town, seized the weapons of six visiting U.S. sailors, fought off local police. Then 35 constabulary officers arrived and the one-sided slaughter began. Fifty-two insurgents lay dead by the time order was restored. Within 48 hr. peace again reigned in Luzon. The price: 61 dead, 54 wounded insurgents, ten wounded constabulary members...