Word: gunner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embark June 18 on the destroyer U.S.S. Tillman for the advanced training cruise, which will return on or about June 30. The officer in charge of the group of 28 students will be Lieutenant (j.g.) E. A. Seay, U.S.N., (assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics), assisted by Chief Gunner's Mate W. E. Stevens, U.S.N.R...
...feel no resentment toward a brave machine-gunner who shot me down on the morning of October 16. I was shooting at him! But I do feel bitter toward those pacifists who made that war necessary and are doing all in their power to bring on the next. I can't help but feel that people like Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams. Dr. Fosdick and Rabbi Wise were the murderers of a brave squad that was cut down before a machinegun nest at Chevieres...
When the U. S. duck & goose gunner takes out his fowling piece next autumn he will, if law-abiding, be going after fewer birds than ever before. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has limited his bag to four geese per day and eight in possession, including brant, of which eight formerly might be taken in addition...
...Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last week to go to Kidder, Peabody. He is also a director of Freeport Texas Co., New England Trust Co., Railway & Light Securities Co. Golfer, fisherman, gunner and rider-to-hounds, he was in Florida last week recovering from brain concussion suffered when he was thrown last October in the Norfolk Hunt (Medfield, Mass...
Tall angular Congressman Patman, 37, a War machine gunner, early last winter began his agitation for Bonus-cashing. A missionary Baptist, he spread his gospel of full and immediate payments through the House when his friends assured him he was only crying in a wilderness. He gave the Republican House leadership a bad scare when he got almost 150 signatures to a petition to force the Bonus bill out of committee and into open debate. His converts gave the Battle for the Bonus its first real strength...