Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary, Indiana, last week, one Al Shaw was arrested for driving his automobile too slowly (15 m.p.h.). The State of Rhode Island, in an effort to speed up traffic, now has a law that passenger cars on open roads must travel at least 35 m.p.h. Indiana and Rhode Island notwithstanding, the legal speed limit of Prague, Czechoslovakia remains a conservative 9 m.p.h. (15 kilometers) where it was fixed by the Bohemian Government...
...than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...
Died. Edward Francis ("Mister") Gallagher, 56, once famed comedy singer with Al ("Mister") Shean; for four years a paralytic cripple; in Astoria, L. I. Four times married, thrice divorced, once wealthy, "Mister" Gallagher died penniless, supported for the last three years by his third wife (Helen Rogers Gallagher...
...Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years, The Head Coach, The Stroke Oar, Campus Days, et al...