Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Arthur David Palmer. 45, advertising manager of the New York Central R. R.; after being struck by a motor bus; in Yonkers...
...outskirts of each village the royal motor halted and its occupants alighted in mud and slush. Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
...sped the limousine to "Little Moscow." There the red fires of communism, which burned brightly a year ago, have been quenched by black hunger. Cowed communists cheered royalty. Suddenly the drab, depressing scene was enlivened as a motor hired by several press correspondents rattled up. They wanted Edward of Wales to meet his challenger?Frank McKay. Working fast they had found Old Frank in a neighboring village, ordering a coffin for his wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank...
George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the Sussex seaside where he will recuperate (TIME, Feb. 4) was driven into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal physicians announced that they had "thoroughly tested its suitability...
...years later he arrived at the offices of Henry Ford. He was then a young man of 30, sandy-haired, straight as a spruce, well-muscled. In the legal department of the Ford Motor Co. were 21 hopeful lawyers. Each of them would have liked the distinction of being chief counsel for one of the greatest businesses in the world. But Lawyer Longley disappointed the hopes of all 21 in exactly two years, and then still further disappointed nine of them by cutting the department's force to twelve...