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Great Expectations. In Oklahoma City, Officer E. W. Lawson forgave a woman driver three traffic violations in one block when she explained that she had just discovered she was going to become a mother. In Louisville, Speeder Ernest L. Woods assured the judge that he was transporting an expectant mother, got fined $5 when she turned out to be a spitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Bill") Dickman, 34, who visited the U.S. consular office on the twelfth floor of Vancouver's Marine Building one day last week. What Bill Dickman wanted was a "job with a future." For four years during the depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Great Expectations | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Summary Proceeding. In Churubusco, Ind., Town Marshal Ben demons gave a restraining signal to a speeder ahead of him, got such prompt obedience that he barreled into the car, practically demolishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 1, 1946 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Speedsters. In Seattle, Traffic Officer W. W. Crow caught up with a speeder, quizzed him, presently discovered the car had been stolen from his brother. In Westchester County, N.Y., OPA Inspector William Bennett, arrested for speeding, said he had been determining whether the law was being enforced, promptly learned that it was, paid a $15 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Keystone Kops. In Shreveport, La., officers of the law finally got straightened out after a complicated chase. Two patrolmen in a private car chased a speeder; a State trooper in a private car chased the patrolmen; two more patrolmen chased the State trooper. The leader of the parade was fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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