Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justice of the peace, an office which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of Berwyn. A lawyer by profession, plump, 35-year-old Justice of the Peace Mandell announced that he had married only 41 couples in Berwyn in six months, saw no obstacle to making use of his administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look in the statute books...
...TIME, July 19, mention was made that the late Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly an autogiro across the continent (U.S.). Please permit me to correct you on this, as I was the first one to do so. My flight started at Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia, on May 14, 1931 and ended at San Diego (North Island Naval Air Station) on May 28, 1931, after a leisurely flight stopping at several cities for demonstrations, etc. My autogiro (a Pitcairn 330 h. p. model) was the first ever seen west of the Mississippi River...
...years ago a fresh, good-looking, young cop sat astride his motorcycle in the city of Evanston (pop. 68,000), Chicago's strait-laced North Shore suburb. On his mind were two things, the Law, which he was studying at night, and the violators of Law. Of the latter, most interesting to him were violators of automobile ordinances. With a flair for order, exactitude and investigation he was soon stepping full stride into an almost unexploited field. Last week the same young man, now Lieut. Franklin Martin Kreml, 34, of the Evanston Police Department, organizer of Accident Prevention Bureaus...
...most accomplished example of photographic art at its best is afforded by a study of the floating gardens at Xochimilco, a suburb of Mexico City. Concerning this work, the following information is given out in a special circular for the exhibit: "The gardens, dating from at least 1270, halted Cortes, who was rescued from the mire of its sluice ways by Tlaxcalan allies...
...most interesting photographs in the collection is that of the studio of Diego Rivera in San Angel, "a quiet suburb of Mexico City." Another work bound to attract attention is that of "Devotees at the Capilla del Pocito," which was taken at a spring in Guadalupe. Here, tradition holds that a spring with miraculous healing powers burst from beneath the feet of the Virgin of Guadalupe about...