Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced, on a short session of Congress, he has made up his mind to a short legislative program. But at any time he may decide that the U. S. wants a new act to promote low-cost housing, amendments to the Social Security Act, a navy-building program, ship subsidies or new measures to reduce interest rates...
...keeping with the Times' policy of protecting Hero Lindbergh's privacy, Reporter Lyman weakened his otherwise first-rate scoop by failing to disclose the time and place of the Lindberghs' sailing, their ship's name, their exact destination. But he did state flatly the following facts...
...Lindberghs had secretly obtained passports in Washington a week in advance, slipped away from the Morrow home in Englewood, N. J. with farewells only to the immediate family. The only passengers aboard their ship, they were now bound for England to establish a home which might be permanent. They had been driven to this decision by mounting threats to kidnap or kill Son Jon. They had chosen England because they believed the English to be the world's most law-abiding people. Their chief aim was to give Jon a normal childhood. Colonel Lindbergh, though he might become...
...around in search of news, added a few facts and a mass of apocrypha to the Times' scripture. By Monday afternoon it was revealed that the Lindberghs had sailed on the U. S. Lines' small American Importer, a cargo liner of 7,590 tons. Not even the ship's officers had known who their passengers were to be until Colonel Lindbergh marched into the captain's cabin with his familiar, "I am Charles Lindbergh." All arrangements had been made by a U. S. Lines vice president, who had thoughtfully put aboard a six-foot Christmas tree...
Racketeer Canarelli has been a big depositor in Littenham's bank, and when the U. S. goes off the gold standard and Littenham takes advantage of the days of grace to ship all his gold to Canada by airplane, Canarelli naturally wants a cut. In the ensuing lawsuit, held in Megapolis, Littenham's lawyer argues "that it was a fact, proved by precedent, that American millionaires were not citizens of the United States but were autonomous powers coordinate with the federal government. That they therefore could not be arraigned and tried before the national courts but were subject...