Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Mary's stately maroon Daimler has all the old-fashioned dignity of its royal owner. One day last week both received a nasty bump. Returning from a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens with Queen Mary, Captain Lord Claude Nigel Hamilton, her controller and equerry, and Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, a woman of the bedchamber, the high old limousine was caught on the right by a truck loaded with steel, skittered sideways, struck the curbing and overturned. The occupants were tumbled among automobile cushions and flowers, and the doors jammed shut. But eyewitnesses soon unscrambled...
...last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that the time might come when the Army would have to "take over." General Moseley had started his own investigation of "isms" which called for considerable travel. "If the Jews bump me off," he wrote in a spirit of martyrdom to Captain Campbell, "be sure to see they get credit for it from coast to coast. It will help our cause...
...fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
...already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...