Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
...prayer and speech. On the last day of this Congress religious fervor was to be at its highest. Every cleric not incapacitated or ordered elsewhere was to go to the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake. Hundreds of thousands of laymen were to follow by train and motor car. The greatest religious spectacle ever produced in the U. S. was to be consummated...
Summoned by a curt order, the Premier's sleek but thunderous motor shot to the portals of his residence, the Villa Toronia;* drew up with a screech...
...devouring motor. . . a race back through Tuscany. . . . ROME...
They will leave the home of H. J. Coolidge in Beverly at 9.20 o'clock, and motor to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they will make a brief tour of inspection. Then they will proceed to Harvard...