Word: elkhart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...
John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George...
...Chicago, Mrs. Janet Estes filed suit for divorce because her husband neglected her for picture postcards. To fill a gap in his series, he went to Elkhart, Ind., remained there a year. Last fortnight he wrote home for his passport, said he was going to Russia "to round out a memorable monument of postcards...