Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative hobbles: A "Jim-Crow" law for the District of Columbia; U. S. Prohibition for foreign embassies in Washington. He lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever...
Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME you have stated that no patents are obtainable on the new Packard Diesel type airplane motor. We do not know the source of your information but the fact is that while the Diesel engine principle is very old, many problems had to be solved before a suitably light Diesel type motor could be built for aircraft use. These problems were solved by us and in many instances real inventions resulted. Therefore, instead of no patents being obtain able, this Packard engine will be very well protected by patents and there is every reason...
President and General Manager Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich...
Italian Ambassador Signer Mobile Giacomo de Martino, short, fussy, quick and nervous of movement. His chief recreation is confined to long motor rides out of Washington. Wines at the Italian Embassy have long been famed...
...grandstands were hot. The 2½-mile brick speedway was baking. The audience of 160,000 sweltered. But around and around the track droned 33 little automobiles, each driven by a man cool of nerve and body, competitor in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day motor race at Indianapolis-longest, most racking of U. S. motor contests...