Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost twelve hours after he had legally become Mayor, Jimmy Walker, dapper and swagger, descended from his car in front of the City Hall. The crowd was tremendous. As it surged around him he grinned: "Let me in, I want to go to work." Every room in the building was crowded. In one of the largest, crowded with 700 or 800 people, Mayor Walker took the oath a second time, then Mr. Hylan spoke. When he had done, the Mayor spoke, saying: "I, too, Judge Hylan, am very happy today." Then he began to read his prepared address. Before...
Professor Hovgaard, the technical adviser of the Court, recommended: that in future dirigibles be thicker in proportion to their length; that the control car be built into the ship's hull instead of depended from it; that if possible the engine cars be similarly placed; that the speed of dirigibles be increased to enable them to escape storms; that more mooring masts be set up, and better weather reports instituted for air navigation...
Town Topics last week rescued from oblivion a tidbit of history. In the days when Calvin Coolidge was Vice President and Charles Gates Dawes was Director of the Budget, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs Dawes struck up a very intimate friendship, and every Sunday morning the Vice President's car could be seen taking the two ladies and their husbands from the New Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...forces, issued a proclamation asking for peace on terms highly advantageous to Li. While the ensuing parley was under way, the Feng troops received reinforcements, crept up upon Tientsin, overwhelmed the garrison, and forced General Li to flee to the local Japanese concession in a, motor car...
Having used the motor car for almost every other conceivable purpose, leading Detroit automobile makers have now organized a company entitled "Snow Motors Inc.," to put out a machine which will negotiate the deepest snowdrifts at six to eight miles an hour. The new car will consist of a Ford tractor power-plant mounted on two revolving cylinders instead of wheels-something on the order of a steam roller. The machine has already proved its usefulness in deep snow previously unnavigable. One such machine has done the work which formerly required three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses...