Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streetcar and the automobile of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson crashed together in Washington. Mrs. Wilson was reported "shaken, but uninjured...
Promulgated by the Cabinet in the form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy...
...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...from the Commissioner so to do." This sentence might apply to the general public or only to special purchasers (i. e. drugstores) who obtained liquor from illegal sources. The U. S. Supreme Court last week handed down a decision in the case of one James E. Farrar, Boston elevated streetcar operator arrested for liquor-buying: he was not guilty.* Explained Associate Justice George Sutherland...