Word: md
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving one evening from his office in the Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving...
...Baltimore, Md., railroad men unlocked a refrigerator car that had been locked eleven days before in California, found Glenn Boldan, 14, who had run away from his home in Motley, Minn. Half-frozen, exhausted and starving, Glenn Boldan had survived by chewing on his shoetops, his cap and the seeds of several cotton bolls he had bought for souvenirs in California, by sucking on ice he pulled through a chink in the refrigerator...
...Buckley, of Somerville, Mass.; Joseph W. Chapman, of Leadville, Colo,; Paul T. Choate, of Groton, Mass.; Warrick E. Elrod, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.; Richard R. Evans, of Berlin, Mass.; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr., of Exeter, N. H.; Stephen S. Gracewski, of Thompsonville, Conn.; Robert L. Green, Jr., of Baltimore, Md...
...Like many another householder who was still immersed in autumn renovating, the President found that only three rooms of the White House were ready for occupancy. So he spent the weekend on the Sequoia dedicating a bridge near Cambridge, Md. and cruising the Chesapeake, planned to go this week to his mother's place at Hyde Park. There he hoped table discipline would help him take off a few extra pounds acquired on the Houston...
Residents of Berwyn Heights, Md., neighbors of Minnesota's Senator Thomas David Schall, have started recently at the sight of the blind Senator trotting about his farm on horseback. No novice, Senator Schall in his youth was a constant rider. One day in 1907 he leaned over a cigar lighter which flared up in his eyes, blinded him, ended his riding. Six weeks ago. still totally blind, he mounted his first horse in 28 years, found he could ride without difficulty. Scorning help, the strongwilled, strong-tongued Senator allowed companions only to call "To the right...