Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the President offers the poor blind public only the elephant's car, hoping it won't be able to guess from that, the kind of breast that confronts it. He may be able to finesse his plan through Congress by this means, but he is more likely to end up in the history books as one who preferred the methods of pressure politics to those of unequivocal presentation to the people...
...hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
...encountered an automobile careening crazily down the road, stopped it, arrested the driver for drunken driving. He was Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old Uniontown hotel man. The detective took the old man's wheel. The district attorney drove ahead, returned when he saw that the second car was not following. He found the detective staggering down the road, bleeding from a knife wound. Frank Monaghan was hauled to police headquarters for questioning. There that night he died, of "heart disease superinduced by acute alcoholism," according to the coroner's report...
...marked Ambassador Davies and Daughter Emlen start this week on a quick swing in their private car around industrial centres within 600 miles of Moscow. Mrs. Davies remains in Moscow as she is "not interested. To avoid indigestion, the Ambassador has informed local Soviet authorities that they will not eat outside their car, thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence...
...manhunt tightened around Buenos Aires, where Pin Head Gordillo's lieutenant, one Antonio Capriolo, was still at large. Every car entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...