Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transportation to Vandalia. At 50 and at 75, last week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more a matter of steady nerves than skillful marksmanship, which most Vandalia shooters take for granted. It gets harder with every target. Young Olds was relieved when he missed his 96th. Then he hit three more for 99 and the $1,000 first prize, with two marksmen tied for second...
...more injuries suffered by athletes waiting for the games to start at Los Angeles last week, most disastrous was the one which befell Col. Giuseppe Pirzio-Biroli, 52, captain of the Italian rifle team. He fell into a target pit while supervising practice, fractured a vertebra, had to be taken to the California hospital where physicians said he must remain, in a plaster cast, for three months...
...destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were heard 120 mi. away in London...
...came in. Defying Mr. de Valera personally, the Governor General wrote to the President, "I know you have a majority in the Dail, aid I know that you can have me removed. ... I do not think I should resign my office because other officeholders think I am a suitable target for ill-conditioned bad manners...
...other officeholders" are two members of the de Valera Cabinet who made the Governor General their "target" by leaving a dance at the French Legation in Dublin directly he appeared. This insult, according to virtually the entire Press of Great Britain last week, was intolerable. The Governor General was lauded for disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur...