Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Face the roaring traffic daily...
Wrote United Feature's tart, smart Columnist Westbrook Pegler few weeks ago: "There is something very imprudent not to say brutal about the record of the Roosevelt boys who have figured in traffic cases. Here is a country with an annual death list of 39,000 in automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow...
...weeks before last Saint Patrick's Day, salesmen of American Chain Co. appeared in bright green neckties. Asked why representatives of a Bridgeport, Conn. concern should celebrate Saint Patrick's Day-and prematurely, at that-salesmen replied that green was the color of safety, that green traffic lights meant go ahead, that green was American Chain Co.'s official hue. In the same spirit, girls who worked for American Chain were given imitation green jade bracelets. So successful was the color idea that the June 1935 issue of Industrial Power complimented American Chain by coming...
...respect Warm Springs was different from the health resort he visited in previous years: on every driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...
Such talk was sweet music to the mayors which made other subjects sound dull and tuneless. Attorney General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator Wagner urged them to support low-cost Government housing. One evening was given over to the problem of "busting the Gas Trust." But the conference really got back to business and excitement when it got back to the subject of relief and Government money...