Word: rams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Prajadhipok and Queen Ram-baibarni of Siam took a 7-hr, cruise in the dirigible Los Angeles over New York City, Long Island and the New Jersey coast, napped a while in the commander's cabin. In the party were a Siamese lady-in-waiting and Mrs. William B. Sayles, wife of a Brooklyn Navy Yard captain. The ladies were the first ever to ride in the Los Angeles. Next day the Siamese court left the U. S. for Canada...
Prosecutor of the 68 culprits is Victor E. La Rue, First Assistant U. S. Attorney. He is used to wholesale liquor cases. At Rockford, 111., he recently tried a batch of 43 'leggers, convicted 36. But the driving force behind the Federal battering ram against Chicago gangdom was softspoken, bush-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, born and bred on an Iowa farm 56 years ago. When he was graduated from Lake Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced...
Suspecting a religious feud between Sikhs (dissenters from Brahmanic Hinduism) and Hindus (Sant Ram Pande was of the Brahman caste), police combed East Indian colonies up and down the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The day following the discovery of the body, three Sikhs were found hiding in a barn near Fairfield, 15 mi. from the scene of the crime. Also in the barn officers discovered a harrow with a wheel similar to that found with Pande's body. At Pande's cremation two Sikhs quarrelled, one was stabbed...
...Californians were not sanguine about the possibility of solving Sant Ram Pande's murder or the murders of his 13 countrymen, for the State's Indian population is even more secretive than its Chinese and Japanese...
...polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger of concussions is slight...