Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss citizens residing in Rebel territory, he was allowed to open an office in Berne to conduct his business. But he managed to obtain a tag with the letters "C.D." from the Department of Interieur, the branch of vehicles & traffic of the canton of Berne, for his car, distinguishing it from other people's cars. ("C.D." means Corps Diplomatique...
...handed the University of Wyoming a whacking 19-0 defeat in Laramie last week, but for the 450 Cheyenne businessmen who frolicked on a special Union Pacific train which carried them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
...motor cars purred out of Vatican City one morning last week, crossed the Tiber and rolled through the streets of Rome without attracting any particular attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between...
...strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should have personal liberty and that liquor pays taxes. He also pleaded Alcohol's case with: "If a man wants to drink and then go out for a drive in his own car-that's his business!" (Boos from the Baptist Temple audience...
...route to a Los Angeles exhibition match against Ellsworth Vines, Amateur Champion Tennist Donald Budge fell asleep at the wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...