Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, who had gone out from Washington to get away from blueprints and reports, soon shoved printed matter aside, set off at the head of a 40-car motor caravan to see things for himself. Rolling through stubbly, barren fields, over roads which blanketed the party in dust, the President inspected a sample WPA dam, turned into the farm of big, blue-eyed, young J. J. Boehm. While Mrs. Boehm and six small Boehms stared, the President asked: "How many acres have you?" "President," replied Farmer Boehm in a thick German accent, "I got 480 and I am having...
...raining hard when the President's train puffed into Jamestown, N. Dak. next morning. Pulling on a slicker, he set out in an open car for a two-hour look at WPA projects, could not resist gloating over his luck when he returned...
...usual King Vittorio Emanuele lived in his "World's Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
Next reported last week by United Press was another of those incidents concerning a Dictator which make disbelievers shout "Baloney!" A small child was sprawling at play in the middle of the street as II Duce came driving along. He pulled up sharply, got out of his car, picked up the bambino and carried it indoors to its mother, saying: "You must be more careful. Babies are the dearest things in the world." "Because my husband is serving in East Africa, Excellency, I have to work so much harder I have scarcely any time," timidly explained the woman...
...being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction as the wreckage piled up around him. Just as a freight car reared up over his head the pile of wreckage gave way, and he was shot forward with the released water. That sent him into open water, and he was safe. As he climbed to the roof of another dwelling, he made a characteristic gesture. He looked at his watch...