Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either to odd coincidence or bitter design, there has been a tax fight between wealthy Senator Couzens of Michigan and wealthier Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department, since 1925. It was a fight over Senator Couzens' profit tax on his shares in the Ford Motor Co., which he sold in 1919. Last week, Senator Couzens won the fight and the Treasury Department lost perhaps $2,000,000 in refunds to Senator Couzens and eight other onetime Ford stockholders...
...last week on the liner Conte Biancamano to return the visit made to Rome last year by jaunty New York Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Prince Potenziani's governship of Rome is a mayoralty with added dictatorial powers. He is of ancient aristocratic family but likes to drive a motor car with as much reckless speed as does Dictator Benito Mussolini himself, and is skilled in the gentlemanly art of swordplay. He was accompanied by his athletic, vivacious daughter, Princess Miriam. Orating at Manhattan, he said: ". . . The Man of Destiny, Benito Mussolini . . . guided by his inexhaustible love of his fatherland...
Thus, the Chancellor defended his Budget with spirit, for some hours, careless or unconscious of his rising fever. Suddenly, however, he was seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must...
...Farmingdale, Long Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
Left alone in the U. S. was the third stockholder of the Ford Motor Co., President Edsel Ford; reporters could not reach him to ask explanatory questions about the company's annual financial statement published last fortnight, as law requires, in Boston...