Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax of the encampment was to have been a triumphant march along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. But as the marchers, dampened by a drizzle and closely shepherded by 500 police, approached the Emergency Hospital and were asked to stop chanting, they obeyed. When a White House car pulled up with a request to divert the march to the auditorium of the Labor Department, they obeyed again. There they cheered David Lasser's reading of a message from Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, expressing the President's regret that "it is not within our power" to reinstate...
...Unbounded Exasperation." One morning two long limousines sped along the road from Nanking to Shanghai. A Union Jack fastened to the radiator of each car was whipped smartly by the breeze. Without warning, about 50 miles from Shanghai, a Japanese plane zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China...
Richmond, Va., Aug. 13-Frank Moran, secretary-treasurer to the State Police superintendent, told this one today: A rookie State patrolman, feeling his authority, stopped a tourist car which was several inches out of the right highway lane...
...officer smiled triumphantly. "Well, buddy, suppose you explain why you've got Ohio tags on your car...
There is nothing a cop likes better than to catch someone in a lie. Our favorite instance of this sort is the time a traffic policeman in the town of North Woodstock, New Hampshire, stopped a car for speeding. The driver was a woman. "Where you from?" the cop demanded. "Philadelphia," replied the lady. The cop put on a wise look and nodded his head. "Oh, so you're from Philadelphia, eh?" he said, sarcastically. "Well, if you're from Philadelphia, whatcha doin' with them Pennsylvania licence plates...