Word: dover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. U. S. Senator Daniel 0. Hastings of Delaware; and Miss Elsie Saxton, of Dover, Del.; in Manhattan...
...Communist National Textile Workers and the conservative A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers joined in concerted action. Lawrence police refused permission for the National unionists to convene on the common, arrested seven agitators. But the United Workers were allowed to convene at will. At Boonton, Dover and Paterson (N. J.), Hampden (Mass.) and Philadelphia, members of the well-organized American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, struck, but their leaders agreed to accept 35% to 40% reductions in wages in return for a guarantee of the 1929 scale...
...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...
...offered a $5.000 prize for the first glider flight across the English channel and back. One day last week Austria's famed Glider Pilot Robert Kronfeld, onetime holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds for two hours, landed at Dover. His return flight to Calais was in darkness, took only 20 min. Pilot Kronfeld won the Daily Mail's prize. But much of the newspaper's thunder had been stolen day before when one Lissaut Beardmon.-. Canadian opera singer, made a one-way channel flight with the secret backing...
...streets of Dover, N. J., were wet with rain one afternoon last week. An expensive coupe rolled up the main street, parked impudently in a bus stop. A woman got out, went into a drug store. The man who was driving saw rain-caped Policeman Charles E. Ripley come over to him, but did not notice the concealed interest with which the officer observed his license plate-V-2880. "Don't you know you're parking in a bus stop?" Policeman Ripley began pleasantly. Then, before the driver had time to reach the two revolvers in his pockets...