Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection of Army barracks in the South of Ireland. He rode in an open touring car and was accompanied by a Rolls-Royce whippet armored car as escort. At Beal-Na- Blath, County Cork, he was ambushed. He immediately ordered his men to return the fire and led the attack on the ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that...
Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
...plain fact is, of course, that the "service charge" which is proposed by Representative James J. Foley would badly cripple the University. Almost every dollar in the Harvard treasury was definitely car-marked by its donor for a particular purpose, and the fund which supports the Fogg Museum, for example, could not be applied to taxes on Lowell House. In spite of its rich endowment, Harvard, like every other educational institution, can under no condition afford to bear the burden of state taxation...
Blind ex-Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma heard loud metallic scrunchings and raspings, suffered painful bruises and cuts when a Washington, D. C. ash truck shattered his automobile, driven by Mrs. Gore. Also shattered were the Gores' hopes of a good trade-in on a new car waiting for them three blocks away...
...being robbed once, his luck held. By truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...