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...Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...fellow burned one church or synagogue he'd likely be called a punk, among other things. Why should the burning of many such places make him be considered for the Man of the Year? If a punk, through brute force, made an old Jew scrub a street, he'd be called anything but Man of the Year, eh? Would he be any different because he'd done so to many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Pointing out that to run its inferior schools Oklahoma City spends $429,000 a year more than Fort Worth, the Times sought to bestir citizens to long-overdue school reforms, cried: "It costs no more to raise a thoroughbred than it does to raise a scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thoroughbreds and Scrubs | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...ends, Captain Bob Green and big Don Daughters. Green caught two short aerials, one from ace wingback Torby Macdonald and the other from tailback Austy Harding, both for scores. Daughters was the proverbial bulwark on defense and set the stage for one score when he Larry Kellied a scrub fumble on the four-yard stripe...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: VARSITY OVERWHELMS SCRUB GRIDMEN, 47-6 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping the ground first, 1,000 yards beyond the airport. Like a flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then hit a scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died an hour later in a Billings hospital. Pilot Bullock, shaken but unhurt, was amazed. "It just didn't seem to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bad Land | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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