Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, Lucio Godino, Siamese twin, was arrested for traffic violations. Judge William M. Northrup suspended sentence because the innocent brother, Simplicio, pleaded that he should not be jailed or fined for Lucio's offense...
...legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as well as their sale and transportation. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, father of the 18th Amendment, urgently explained that the Amendment, by prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, possession and sale of liquor, contained enough provisions to stamp out the liquor traffic. If no liquor were available, there would be none to use or buy it. The Senator did not add that it would probably have been impossible to pass the Amendment or the Act with purchase and use prohibited...
...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...arrangement with the Traffic Departments of the cities of Boston and Cambridge and of the Metropolitan District Commission automobile traffic will be handled today as follows...
After 1 o'clock Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, as far as Western Avenue will be closed to automobile traffic...