Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the current Presidential campaign's liveliest rally to date, Nominee Knox headed back East in his special train, stopped frequently to address crowds large and small. When the Roald Amundsen, his private car, reached Chicago, Frank Knox's tour had ticked off 9,000 miles from Maine to California...
...State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...evening last week an automobile with a big trailer stood parked on a peaceful hillside near the town of Washington in southern Indiana. Below, at the bottom of a dark slope, the waters of a small lake shimmered faintly. The hour was nearly midnight and the car itself was dark and empty, but a soft light glowed from the windows of the trailer where a honeymooning couple were preparing...
...stillness of the night the car, with its lighted trailer outlined against the dark foliage of trees, began to move. Almost imperceptibly, then faster, it rolled towards the lake below. Suddenly light shone brightly from the door of the trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled...
Perhaps it is incorrect to refuse to believe the statement of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Perhaps the Curley car was not going over 50 miles, as has been testified. Perhaps it was not passing another car at that rate and perhaps the Governor's person is so estimable in the sight of the powers that be that he will always be miraculously shielded from harm. In view of the fact that he has been involved in a long string of accidents and is notorious throughout the state for the reckless speeding of his cars, the above supposition luckily holds...