Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session of "desk work," calculated to keep him busy until the Legionaries cleared out of his westward...
...bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark, N. J. police headquarters, a telephone rang and a man's voice said: "I've just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry because an aunt had left him out of her will, had killed his brother and two uncles before turning his shotgun on himself...
...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
...Angeles dawn, she climbed into her black & silver Lockheed Orion, lumbered into the air, sped to New York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...
...hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing a rescue party, they sped back to their car, found only a penciled note. Mother and daughter, unable after two days and nights to endure the heat any longer, had wandered off into the trackless sands in search of water...