Word: carte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the Supreme Electoral Tribunal upset the coalition cart by ruling that electors must vote for the nominee of their party. Thus the rebellious Liberal wing could not join the Gomez coalition and foxy old Menocal would probably win. With the coalition threatening to withdraw from the election if the ruling stood, and the Menocalistas threatening to withdraw if the ruling was disregarded, President Mendieta again postponed the election, called in Dr. Dodds...
After conviction and completion of a jail sentence, he goes back to his vegetable cart. Finding himself despised by the world, he becomes disillusioned, gives up his cart, and takes to drink...
...Crainquebille," picture of the evening, based on the play of that name by Anatole France, emphasises the futility of human justice. Crainquebille, who pushes a vegetable cart about Paris, is arrested on a false charge of shouting at a policeman, "Mort aux vaches...
...Charles Williams Nash was a carriage trimmer in Flint Road Cart Co. Two decades later he was president of General Motors, with Walter P. Chrysler working under him. In 1916 he left General Motors, spent $5,000,000 for the old Rambler automobile plant at Kenosha, Wis. By 1926 he had built 500,000 Nashes and his company had earned $80,000,000 on its original investment. Last year, at 70, Chairman Nash, reputedly worth $100,000,000, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary...
...droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...