Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
...Sniper Counts sat down, the superintendents cheered and Hearst editors gloated over an old photograph showing Dr. Counts with a scraggly black beard which he affected for a time after returning from study in Russia...
...Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt, for a change." He was released on $500 bail...
...dozen bullet holes in the windows of Stoughton, with the accompanying shower of finely shattered glass, has given the inmates of this building cause for considerable concern. No clew to the identity of the sniper has as yet been discovered, despite the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the members of Stoughton...
Rebuking another Democratic sniper at the New Deal, Secretary Ickes also last week canceled four loans totaling $210,000 allotted to Georgia. Governor Eugene Talmadge, who last week blatantly turned his anti-New Deal fire directly on President Roosevelt (see p. 14), had promised to push passage of a bill validating the sale of Georgia Highway Department Certificates to guarantee the loans in question. When the bill was passed Governor Talmadge vetoed it. Commented Secretary Ickes: "I like to do business with a man whose word I can rely on. We don't care for any more underwriting...