Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to Uruguay (TIME, Oct. 10). While police searched 64 public establishments and private homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported that he was keeping under cover there to avoid embarrassing the Uruguayan government...
Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...
...lawyers pointed to decisions on the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (the Mann Act), which says, "Any person who shall knowingly . . . cause to be transported . . . in interstate commerce . . . any woman or girl for . . . any immoral purpose . . . shall be deemed guilty of a folony...
...this year the neighbors got riled. What with the traffic and the music, they couldn't talk, think, sleep, or get in & out of their own driveways. "I am sorry to say it," said one, "but I don't believe I want to hear Silent Night ever again...
...Moment. In Omaha, Judge Arthur C. Thomsen, pondering a traffic damage suit, told the jury, "A careful driver ought reasonably to anticipate some vehicles making viatic use of the road," then added, "I have been waiting two years to get a case where I could use the word 'viatic...