Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instance, was commonly known as a criminal of stupendous measure, but he was brought into the Chicago Courts and discharged by terrorized juries fifty times before the government nipped him on an income tax charge. And this took place in a community whose municipal courts are a national model for organization and efficiency. The record of New York's courts with the racketeers is far less savoury. But our great sectional patriotism, the same that dictates the restriction of Congressional choice to the residents of the electing district, stands in the way of cutting down the jurisdiction of local courts...
...Model Tenement, Model Farms...
...packing into Detroit's chromium-pillared Convention Hall last week. There was an automobile assembly line. Tight-rope walkers and acrobats performed from time to time. More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars with other manufacturers and who took no part in Chicago's Century of Progress...
This letter is written on the latest model desk type "Remington Noiseless...
...Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 9, 10, and 11, Harvard will act as host to the eighth annual meeting of the New England Model League of Nations. The organization, in which 31 New England colleges are now participating members, was founded in 1927 to stimulate interest in the procedure and activity of the League of Nations at Geneva and to acquaint undergraduates interested in international affairs with the difficulties involved in present-day diplomacy...