Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubts that the German carpenter was solely responsible for the Hopewell crime (TIME, Dec. 23). Promptly threats against Jon Lindbergh took on new volume and violence. Meantime the Lindberghs were thoroughly alarmed by an incident in Englewood. As Jon was being motored to his nursery school a large automobile sped up, forced the Lindbergh car to the curb. Strange men leaped out, thrust cameras at the child (see cut), sped away. Since then Jon had not been to school. "National Disgrace- First reaction of U. S. editors to news of the Lindbergh flight was to beat their breasts in shame...
...darkness just before one dawn last week an automobile sped into that part of New York City which lies north of the Harlem River, ground to a halt at the great Bronx Terminal Market. Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle...
...then screamed as she saw it pass with her sister Phyllis spread-eagled across the smashed headlights and the broken bicycle dangling from the radiator. Lance Corporal Mortimer grinned down from the driver's seat. A few yards farther on Phyllis Oakes rolled off the car which sped away. Rushed by her sister to a hospital, Miss Oakes died while friends remarked that only the day before she had written a poem on Death entitled Smile. A capable secretary, she had worked regularly for second-string Novelist Dorothy Brandon (Beau Regard...
...aged 54 and 52, declared that their father had died of loss of blood, that he had been attended not by Dr. Warriner but by the Army man whom he had mentioned as his consultant. In Worcester, undeterred by the impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly announced that there was nothing to substantiate Dr. Warriner's claim that he had deliberately done away with Le Tourneau. Snapped Oldster Warriner: "There were four physicians in [North] Brookfield at the time...
When Secretary Wallace persuaded Cartoonist Darling, a lifelong conservationist, to leave his desk at the Des Moines Register & Tribune year ago last March, Ding sped to Washington with high hopes of spending $50,000,000 to turn 12,000,000 acres of submarginal U. S. farm land into breeding grounds for wild fowl, refuges for other game. The plan seemed to fit in beautifully with both the New Deal's agricultural and relief programs. But getting money out of a bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore...