Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
Between stations, the Nominee mingled freely with his newspaper entourage. He dictated, chatted, visited around, snoozed. An act earlier in the trip, just after leaving Chicago, had seemed characteristic of him. Mrs. Smith wanted something. The Nominee had strode, cigar in teeth, to the baggage car and himself teetered out a huge trunk for her to rummage...
...this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
...Car Loadings reported last week for the week ending Sept. 1, totaled 1,116,948. This was 36,108 cars more than during the previous week but 412 less than the same week last year...
Exported Autos. The American Automobile last week published its survey of the U. S. automotive industry's exports for the first half of this year. Motor cars and trucks exported numbered 260,072 (44,837 more than in the first half of 1927); were worth $184,687,815. Tires: 1,344,000 (225,072 fewer than last year). Parts: $55,318,127 worth ($1,152,428 gain). Best car customer was Australia; best truck customer, Argentina...