Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generalissimo Degoutte, of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...
...from his mother. His income from her estate, aside from his own properties, is reported as one million a year. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic-so he rides about on the seven miles of paved roads on his estate in a small electric car. He keeps 300 employes and has 32 resi dences for them. On his estate is a swimming pool, oil heated for cold weather. His hobbies are radio and color photography; and he conducts his radio station and his laboratories on his estate. A millionaire, perhaps, but also an experimenter...
...several men accused of killing Skelcher's father, a Klansman testified that he did not believe the accused were guilty, and the case was dismissed. Later the same day, the Sheriff and two deputies walked into the J. H. Smith Garage, said to be Klan headquarters, to seize a car said to have been used in the attack on Skelcher. Dewey Newbolt, a Klansman, was sitting within, four guns strapped to his waist. Everybody opened fire. Before the firing was over, six were dead and five wounded. More troops...
...Arriving at the White House, the Prince leaped from the car and was ushered into the Presidential mansion by the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of State. President and Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John, were waiting to receive him in the Blue Room. After introductions had been made, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wright withdrew, leaving the Prince alone in the bosom of the reigning family...
...President, his family and the Prince returned to the Blue Room, where a number of Cabinet members were presented. At 3:00 p. m. the visit was over. The Prince left the White House in the Presidential car, the top of which had been lifted back. All along Pennsylvania Avenue the crowd, which had waited a solid two hours in the broiling sun for his reappearance, cheered him to the echo. The Prince doffed his hat repeatedly, smiled, and seemed deeply to appreciate the spontaneous homage of the people of Washington...