Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...Attorney Courtney-whose zeal, they guessed, would cool after election-was an archaic legal rattrap brought out and set last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in 1817) of Illinois' Criminal Code sets forth that: 1) any person losing $10 or more gambling in Illinois can sue the winner and recover his money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses, the county taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week...
...subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should go down in history as the greatest aviation contribution since the advent of the Wright Brothers." But Frank Hawks will not get his year's subscription: he had taken his last flight, suffered his final crash...
...year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins, and the same person never wins twice...
...came glowing descriptions of the triumphal march through Italy of Hearst Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer with many an Italian official bowing & scraping before him. Reason: on his passport, where the ordinary person places the name of his nearest relative to be notified "in case of death or accident," Funnyman Baer had written: "President F. D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington...