Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five or six young boys had gathered around my car when I stopped," related Mr. Croneis to a CRIMSON reporter last night, "and were attempting to spell out my Massachusetts license plate...
...Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Company Buffalo...
...beaten up as they entered or left polling places. Street fights were staged. Half a dozen ballot boxes were stolen. Clerks and judges of election were intimidated with revolvers. Two men were killed, and finally, at 6:00 p. m., when all was beginning to be calm again, ten car loads of detectives from Chicago descended upon the town, dashed down a street crowded with factory workers, opened fire on James Caponi, killed...
...Caponi gang beat him up at a busy street corner, and kidnaped his brother for a few days. There was the killing of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin last April, a crime that has not yet been solved. Then, a fortnight ago, a black armored car roared down Cicero's main street, spattered the Hawthorne Hotel with machine gun bullets, but missed King Caponi who was standing on the front porch. After such events, "Scarface Al" puts on his light tan shoes, picks up his cane, leaves town...
Record Freightage. Car loadings, notable indicator of U. S. commerce flow, reached 1,187,011 for the week of Sept. 18, the American Railway Association reported last week after the normal 21 days necessary to consolidate the country's statistics. That week was not only the record week of all time for such freight traffic; it was also the tenth successive week, and the seventeenth so far this year, when more than a million freight cars were loaded. Only once since the year's start (the week of Jan. 2) did car loadings fall below...