Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 20 years ago Mr. Crump was Mayor of Memphis. In 1930 he was elected to Congress, served two quiet, unpretentious terms, gracefully retired. Now a jaunty, strapping six-footer of 60 with an unruly shock of hair, he controls all offices in Tennessee's largest city. The Crump dynasty is supposed to be financed by various forms of "protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result...
...most important British news last week, though it made not even small headlines, was the quiet departure for Berlin of Sir Robert and Lady Vansittart...
Late last month a 21-year-old West Virginia mother, who had had two previous children, unknowingly bore her third while easing herself over a slop jar. Her husband unwittingly emptied the jar into the backhouse. There, 40 minutes later, Dr. Bittinger found an 8-lb. boy, cold and quiet but still alive. Commented Dr. Bittinger: "If this baby survives, it will have a fine history, especially if it runs for President...
Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...
...coaches. The new sleepers, built in Los Angeles by Crown Body Works and Columbia Coach Works, are about the best in the country. They have four compartments on each side, each compartment seating or sleeping three persons and containing a lavatory. Chief improvement, in addition to lightness, streamlining and quiet, is airconditioning, based on a new system. Previous sleepers have had cooling apparatus which never succeeded because it was too heavy. The new lightweight system, installed by Dry-Ice Appliance Corp. of Mount Vernon, Ill., consists of a chemical refrigerant piped around the girth of the bus after passing over...