Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...
...Park, Md. when Congress is in session. His boys are named Vernon and Willis. One of his girls is named Lucille. The girl twins are called Unie Mae and Versie Fae, in memory of his university. Unie is married. The Fraziers keep no servants. He drives a black Studebaker sedan. When some one else is using it, he takes a street car. He does not own dress clothes, has never been to a White House function. Social intercourse outside his family interests him not at all. He does not drink or smoke, but does not care if others...
...which the curious little Isle of Man otters tourists is an annual automobile race. There one evening last May famed British Sportsman Kaye Don, in preparation for the race, was speeding around a corner at something like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring's backbone...
Ontario farmers have lately been saving their rottenest eggs, their ripest tomatoes for Conservative Premier George Henry. Campaigning spunkily in his sand-colored sedan he has braved ugly crowds throughout the province, often getting an egg in the neck or a tomato broadside-on and never running for cover. Obviously his Conservative Government, returned to power in 1929 and on the defensive all through Depression, was in a hopeless fix. The Liberals had not won Ontario for 29 years but they were going to win now with a young dirt farmer named Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn as their New Dealer...
...stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns in a red Pontiac sedan that suddenly rolled alongside a monster Havana parade of ABC men, women and children. The guns killed twelve, four of them women, wounded more than 60. The parade went on but stiff-jawed ABC men stepped out of line and went in pursuit. They shot and burned four...