Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motormaker Miller now has taken over the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa., where he is experimenting with a small, cheap car to be called the American Bantam...
...procession drew into Boston the crowds grew denser and more conclusively enthusiastic. Some 150,000 people jammed Boston Common and vicinity and police reserves and guardsmen were almost powerless. Boss Curley introduced the President who made a speech from his car. A good part of the crowd did not hear him because the amplifiers were not strong enough...
...boarded his train earlier, he was met by a cheering crowd, bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar. There were cheers, too, sometimes rising above the boos, sometimes being drowned out. Alf Landon bore his mile-long ordeal with composure, but once inside his hotel he seemed, to members of his party, crushed...
...daughter of a strict Bronx family, stayed up with the family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith if the dead child were hers. "Yes." said...
...lures a College tag for illicit parking; he answers his summons but holds on to the ticket. Then away to the New Lecture Hall, leave the chariot on the street with the tag, date renewed in the winshield, and think no more about it. If an authority sees the car, he observes also that its owner has already been penalized and gives the matter no further thought...