Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cocker Caravan. Calling her Margaret Lydia McGlashan Burton instead of Janet Gray, the FBI arrested her, following charges that she had embezzled some $100,000 in two years from the cashbox of the Decatur Clinic. They also arrested Westminster's Candy, who turned out to be not Margaret's niece but her daughter, Sheila Joy Burton...
Highballing down a well-marked highway last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...
With its heavy load of evidence, the McClellan-led caravan moved on relentlessly toward Jimmy Hoffa's door. Hoffa's Teamster career would depend directly on how much of the hot cargo he could touch without burning his fingers...
...outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares a husband under the diverted beak of her matchmaking aunt. Even the bar-girl gets a romantic Irish proposal: "How would you like to be buried with my people?" After many minutes' wait the uproarious caravan pro ceeds on its way, leaving the pleasant feeling that if the Dunfaill stop was a fair sample, God must surely smile on the Irish railways...
After the wedding the two young officers, their wives and mothers, set off by mule caravan for Constantinople, this time to attend staff college. Shortly after their arrival war broke out in the Balkans, and Nuri went off to the front, but he and Jafar became convinced that advancement was being systematically denied them because they were Arabs. "If we are foreigners, then let's be foreigners," said Nuri. He took over leadership of a cell in the secret Covenant society plotting Arab independence from the decadent and dying Ottoman empire. All cell members wore hooded red gowns...