Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offenses. Juvenile convicts under the Prohibition law totaled 990 (44%,) of whom 250 were 16 years old or less. Young violators of immigration laws numbered 492, while 392 were held under the National Motor Vehicle Act (Dyer Act). Declared the report: "The great majority of the juvenile offenders are typical...
Died. Samuel J. Tilden Straus Jr., 19, Harvard junior, son of Board Chairman Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. and S. W. Straus Investing Corp., Chicago; of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; near Dodge City, Kan. Accompanied by two other Harvardmen, he was on his way to Arizona for...
Soon "the mysterious man and woman" were "a certain Italian prince and an American movie actress, we are reliably informed." Next, it was certain that the man was Crown Prince Umberto. Actually he was a grey-haired Italian banker, Signor Nardi Beltrami. The woman soon became Cinemactress Jeannette MacDonald-actually...
In TIME, June 8, under "Tornado v. Train," you tell of the accident to the Great Northern's Empire Builder, where said Builder was dumped over on its side by the tornado, and you use the expression "a wreck unique in U. S. rail-roading."
Probably the Northern Pacific's wreck record will confirm this, but I saw this peculiar accident within an hour after it happened, and my pride in Fargo's wind-power prevents my keeping silence.