Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encouraged to use the long distance telephone like grain speculators. Through this high-speed network Director Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne...
...spoke in learned Latin. He stopped, murmuring remarks rose from the group then fell again in silence. He raised both hands toward the sky, a moments wait, and then, two objects fell from his steady fingers. The size of one was many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...
...rule under a Regency which would undoubtedly include his mother Marie but not, thought observers, his scapegrace Uncle George. Enroute to Paris by train, home-loving Queen Marie, 34, sister of Rumania's Carol, heard of her husband's death at Besancon, turned and sped under heavy guard to Marseilles, asked that the body be untouched until she came...
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 14--A posse sped late today into the wild area lying about nine miles southeast of Louisville after a milkman saw Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, kidnaped society woman, held prisoner in the rear seat of an automobile...