Word: motor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glasse wrote on official Foreign Office stationery a letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
...Means!" Meanwhile last week the liner President Roosevelt cleared from Manhattan for Le Havre, France, with her holds jampacked and her decks stacked with lashed-on piles of heavy motor trucks and tractors easily convertible into tanks. The Spanish Leftist consul would neither deny nor confirm that all this was bound for Barcelona via Le Havre, but Leftist Manhattan dockworkers openly jubilated as they loaded the President Roosevelt, declared some of the equipment was lettered in Spanish. Should a "pirate submarine" sink the President Roosevelt, Spanish observers felt this would have its effect on U. S. public opinion...
...year before Flagler died, his trains rumbled into Key West. In 1931 however, the road went into receivership, in 1935 the great Labor Day hurricane blew it to pieces. Last week Founder Flagler's dream was revived, as the roadbed of his railroad was reopened as a motor highway...
Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
...confused with U. S. One, a guide to the famed Maine-to-Florida motor route, published last month by the WPA Federal Writers' Project...