Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first permit in any State. That was in the spring of 1935 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Because I was under 1 8 it was necessary for my father to sign my application with me. While he went into the bureau office with me my mother drove our car around the block once, because she was unable to park. When she drove up in front of the office again, my father and I were wait ing for her and I was a full-fledged Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes to acquire my license...
...Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest thing I've seen this summer...
...Jacksonville, Fla., Judge I. Muncy Anderson sentenced two speeders to sit for one hour in the wreck of a car that killed four, there meditate upon the consequences of reckless driving...
Last week Jungo citizens were telling all-comers of a cash offer made by Mr. Hoover; of $1,000,000 for a half-interest offered by John J. Raskob, who arrived at s Jungo in a private railroad car; of $3,-' 500,000 offered by Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd. Against these fabulous bids were two authentic offers of $250,000 cash. In addition to Mr. Hanna's claims, Nevada's one U. S. Representative James G. Scrugham (pronounced "Screw-gum"), onetime dean of the University of Nevada's Engineering College, was so im-pressed...
Haled into a Woburn, Mass., court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable...