Word: gunplay
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Last week the law of Kentucky began taking what course was left it, following a weekend which had proved notably bloody even for the "Dark and Bloody Ground" State. Killers Griffin, Morgerson and Clouse surrendered to Sheriffs. Willie Johnson was at liberty pending investigation of the gunplay in which he figured. Since no patriotic Kentucky peace officer wants to nourish the State's oldtime reputation for feuds, only the Smith-Gambil affray was placed in that category. The State was at a loss, however, to explain the 23 killings which took place in the same two days. Others...
...SPOT-Gunplay within sight of the Chicago Tribune's tower...
...York. New York City's rackets and gunplay are easily in a class with Chicago's. But not until this month have Manhattan newspapers given local crime the publicity Chicago's press usually affords it. The New York Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened...
...reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay and ballotbox stuffing in Chicago's grimy wards, he was defied in court five times...
...Mexico, lived there through its revolution, its independence, its entrance into the Union, its secession and its return. He was a leading citizen of Texas and left his son a fortune that was comfortable but not superfluous. Edward M. House was reared in an atmosphere of war, violence, gunplay. His college career at Cornell was impaired by his frequently playing hookey to become a spectator of the game of politics, and ended at his father's death. In Texas as a young man he made himself famous as a political manager, by electing three governors in succession, each of them...