Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor drivers heed speed restrictiions, that some drivers are capable of proceeding safely at greater speed than others, last week the. law passed by the last session of the Michigan State legislature went into effect, permitting travel over Michigan roads outside of city limits at any velocity.- Yet "No person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead...
...Reed's latest remark. In 1922 ex-President Wilson, irate because the Demo-crat Reed had helped smother the Versailles Peace Treaty in the Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed to have. ... [I] will never willingly consent to any further association with him. . . ." To onetime Governor of Missouri Stephens, ex- President Wilson had written in 1922, when Senator Reed became a candidate...
...first Sunday of each month hereafter, said the cards, let any person call the Delia Vecchia garage and a Delia Vecchia cab will promptly call for him and take him, free of charge, to "the first mass only...
This is the result of what she refers to proudly as "my operation." Some years ago famed Dr. Serge Voronov of Paris advertised for an elderly female willing to submit to a transfer of monkey glands. Only one person in the world was adventurous enough to seek the fountain of youth under the surgeon's guidance-Mrs. King. The resultant publicity helped "make" Dr. Voronov. It delighted Mrs. King. It was like being before the public again. Whenever she walked out on the boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have...
...earnestly request my wife and my children and descendants that they steadfastly decline to sign any bonds or obligations of any kind as surety for any other person or persons; that they refrain from anticipating their income in any respect; that they refuse to make any loans except on the basis of first-class well-known securities and that they invariably decline to invest in any untried or doubtful se- curities or property or enterprise or business...