Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somebody did not bother to learn just which train was taking Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius back from Rome last week. As the regular Basle-Berlin express passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist...
...most damnably outrageous thing I've read in a long time," said Governor Roosevelt. "I can express righteous indignation, but that won't help catch them." The American Legion offered to mobilize 30,000 vigilantes against gangdom. Mayor Walker announced a fresh drive against the city's criminals, felt confident that Police Commissioner Mulrooney would apprehend the murderers. "If anything can arouse Americans . . ." scoffed an editorial in the London Daily Express. "How much more evidence," Congressman Andrew Lawrence Somers wired President Hoover, "is necessary to convince us of the merits of this [Prohibition...
With the old Yippee! of the cowpunching West, Cheyenne last week held its 35th annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise...
...Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station a great silent crowd saw off the first German Chancellor ever to visit Paris on an official mission.* As the Warsaw-Paris express pulled out a few strident voices called hopefully, "Alles Gute! Gluckliche Reise!" ("Good luck; Pleasant Journey...
General Aviation is also heavily interested in Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., the New York-Los Angeles line jointly held by T. A. T. and Western Air Express. Last week thick-necked, stubble-haired Flarris M. ('Pop") Hanshue, president of T. & W. A., resigned to devote all his time and energy to his own money-making Western Air Express of which he is also president. In Mr. Hanshue's place as acting president was put Richard W. Robbins, a lieutenant of G. M.'s smart, trouble-shooting James M. Schoonmaker Jr., president of General Aviation...