Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like. One time when Boss Roraback was in the South, Governor John H, Trumbull and the Senate Finance Committee chairman agreed that Connecticut must have a bond issue, announced it. An angry telegram from Roraback summoned them to a meeting at a Hartford hotel. Storming directly from the railroad station, Roraback demanded, -'What the hell's the matter with you fellows? Can't I leave the State five minutes without you plunging us into debt?" That was the end of that bond issue...
...white & green are the flags of Italy and Hungary though the Hungarian flag is of a different stripe (horizontal). Firmly grasping thousands of both kinds of flags in their damp fists, Budapest school children lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen...
...devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...
Said Mrs. Charles H. Reisig of Larchmont, honorary president of the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Humane Society: "I was the means of having her [Mrs. Tuttle] banished from our society when it was charged that she put beautiful, expensive pets, principally cats, to death in the Larchmont police station, where they had a gas tank." Said President William Bevan of the Westchester County Animal Protective League: "I've known Mrs. Tuttle for years. . . . There must be a misunderstanding somewhere...