Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief executive from 1923 to 1927, was called the "best Mayor Baltimore ever had" by four-time Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie. A farm boy who went to Baltimore and built up a large insurance business, Mayor-elect Jackson, now 54, is a genial, handshaking politician who asks every stranger his first name and calls him by that thereafter. As a municipal administrator, he believes in inviting industrial experts to help run city affairs...
...stranger to the ways of city hoodlums, Attorney General Bennett likes to remind people that he was born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted...
Reporter Rogers told how he, who had been working on the case since it "broke," received after midnight a mysterious telephone call directing him to drive to a deserted spot on the outskirts of the city. He was met by an armed stranger who gave him more intricate, more mysterious instructions. Presently they encountered two other cars and exchanged elaborate signals of flashing headlights. Then the reporter's escort abruptly left him with the words...
...There's your friend. He's waiting for you. . . . Take him in, then turn back and take him home." The armed stranger jumped into one of the other cars, which sped away...
Leading the attack, Mr. Baldwin charged that Scot MacDonald when he came to power chose three dunderheads as his lieutenants in fighting unemployment. "A stranger trio than these three," cried the Conservative Leader, and his shot went home, "have not tried to get anywhere since the immortal party set out for Widdecombe Fair...