Word: autos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revenue Act of 1928, carrying $222,495,000 tax reduction. The Coolidge signature was affixed at 8 a. m., before business hours. Automobile dealers were notified in advance so that they could make good promptly on their promises to reduce auto prices when the 3% sales tax came...
Ethel Barrymore was alarmed and vexed when she learned that her 18-year-old son, spry Samuel Colt, was wanted by the police department of Manhattan. After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine...
...Jury. The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours. After they had said "not guilty" and been dismissed they told incredulous newsgatherers...
...collection of citizens so dormant that they had no knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these men had been investigated and watched by Sinclair detectives before being sworn as his jury. While they were being picked, Sinclair, surrounded by his lawyers, ticked off their...
Rubbers are not romantic. Neither are auto tires, nursing nipples, hot water bags or rubber boots. But last week rubber-romance kindled in the quiet, Gothic depths of the House of Commons. There Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pronounced a few matter-of-fact words which altered the destiny of Britain's wide-flung rubber plantations in Malaya. Straits Settlements and Ceylon. To U. S. motorists the pronouncement meant that raw rubber suitable for tire-making will probably be stabilized in price at a figure less than half of what was paid last year...