Word: slickest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he was still in Germany, he had twice returned to U. S. jurisdiction, had twice hidden in his Philadelphia home (once for four years), since his escape...
...knot motor yacht Q. E. D., streamlined startler designed by and built for Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive...
...undenied report that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes would manage the Administration's floor fight for repeal of the embargo. After two years' agonized observation of Senate Leader Alben Barkley's dazed fumbling with New Deal legislation, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently turning to the slickest, most persuasive man in the Senate for leadership to combat an isolationist filibuster...
...spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan Cottonman George Nichols and his Goose (defending champions) lined up against the slickest sloops of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, England and Germany...
...Slickest bullying trick of Nazi spider-fly diplomacy is to invite victims to Berlin, turn their heads with official flattery, parades and feasts, then scare them out of their wits with a stunning display of German military might given, of course, in their honor...