Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower. What made their testimony important was that they are primarily dependent on war or the fear of war to make not big profits...
...woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through the head, one near the heart. Down the street two women were shot by mistake...
Next morning the nation learned that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace and a U. S. Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
...battle. Police closed in upon a crowd of 2,000 strikers from both ends of Steuart Street. In the van of the mob were Howard Sperry and Nicholas Bordloise, longshoremen. Police fired at the fleeing crowd. There was a wild pounding of feet. Police followed. The crowd rallied. Another volley scattered it but Sperry and Bordloise lay filled with shotgun slugs on the sidewalk of Steuart Street. The police charge drove the strikers up Rincon Hill, on which will rest one end of the $75,000,000 Oakland Bridge. Work on the bridge stopped as the battle line approached...
Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...