Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles was too busy to mind. It was in the thick of one of its periodic reform dramas, beggaring any movie and featuring a bomb, a Thin Man, a false-bottomed car...
...Washington, vacationing Franklin Roosevelt left further work on the Budget last week, and further study of the big new ingredient of his Fourth New Deal: rearmament. For him this visit to Warm Springs, Ga. was to be real relaxation, real "play." He swam in the warm pool, drove his car through the hills and forests, held an open-air press conference. He carved a Thanksgiving turkey for fellow paralysis patients, singled out Eddie Cantor's Thanksgiving greeting to read aloud: "I am grateful that I live in a country where all leaders can sit down . . . and carve...
...went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping. Last week he was charged with shaking down 33 ambitious policemen and firemen for sums ranging from $50 to $450, forcing the civil service department to alter unsatisfactory grades...
Chief of Police Timothy Leahy ordered the raid after repeated warnings to car owners not to leave their cars on the east side of the street had failed. When cars are parked on both sides of the street the fire engines, which use Quincy as one of their chief thoroughfares, are prevented from going through, police officials said...
Police reissued the warning to all students not to allow local boys to drive their cars to garages for them. The boys usually disconnect the speedometers and go joy-riding, police officials said. One such boy was picked up early this week for getting involved in a free-for-all with a "borrowed" car...