Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incalculable tons of water had cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George III was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.-first British sovereign ever to do so. A royal red carpet was spread on the station platform at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and when the blue & silver royal train slid in, Secretary of State Cordell Hull & wife stepped up to welcome the visitors. Mr. Hull said: "Your Majesties, on behalf of the Government and the people...
...Hull bowed (no curtsy) to the visitors. Animated talk began. They all boarded the train, rumbled through the night toward Washington. In Pennsylvania, the pilot train was halted with a hotbox, streaked at 85 m.p.h. to try to catch the royal train at Washington. It was eight minutes late and all the ace correspondents who had trailed Their Majesties across Canada missed their first meeting with the Roosevelts...
...Golden Gate, the prisoners are counted every 30 minutes. They live in silence, permitted no talk except what is essential to their work, save on Saturdays when (if they have been good) they converse under guard for 2½ hours. After the prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number have gone "stir crazy." The penal psychology there is to make...
...Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped and murdered-newshawks assigned to one of the biggest stories ever to break on Page One felt there was no need to consider Lindbergh's feelings. He did not expect it, but the final act of the tragedy was also his final embitterment. The night after he had identified the body of his son in the Trenton morgue, two photographers got into the building and attempted to take pictures of the body...
...road trying to get a shot at Baby Jon Lindbergh. Once there was another kidnap alarm because a canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove away hastily when it attracted attention-police later discovered that it contained movie photographers. Finally on a December night in 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his family left the country. When they were at sea, his friend "Deke" Lyman of the New York Times broke the story of their exile. The U. S. press heaped ashes on its head, too late...