Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back they fell to quarreling with the taxi driver over his charge for waiting time. As Representative Cannon later remembered it, the driver wanted $15. The driver said he asked for $6, whereupon his beery fares cursed, threatened to beat him up. Timid, the driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan...
After his lecture to New York City's police. Dr. Sheehan sped back to the Fifth Avenue Surgery of Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan, which envious doctors say is the world's most gorgeous consultation establishment. There are two butlers, a general manager (Henry Osman), a secretary and blonde Hilda Krupp, the housekeeper who stands by all day so that at any moment the Doctor may have his whittled asparagus, hamburgers or sausages, toast, strawberry jam and tea. Hilda also presses his suits (25 at a time), rolls bandages, keeps everybody cheerful, including Henry who has most...
...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...
...young daughters of Editorial Director Robert Paine Scripps (Scripps-Howard Newspapers) went with their governess to pick flowers at the Oahu Country Club outside Honolulu. Driving back, their native chauffeur leaned out to arrange the flowers, let the car plunge over a 25-foot embankment. Director Scripps and wife sped back by airplane, found Daughter Peggy with broken skull and ankles, Daughter Nackey with internal injuries, but the whole party out of danger...
Back to Manhattan sped Joe Day with the Government's guarantee in his pocket. Not from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (of which he is a director) did he get his loan. He went, instead, to see President Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life. New York Life's Board, on which sit such G. O. Partisans as Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and Charles D. Hilles, considered Joe Day's mortgage with a U. S. guarantee, decided it was a good way to set 5,500,000 idle dollars earning their keep...