Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When informed that bicycle riding in forbidden on the Westchester County (New York) system of parkways Buder declared that he would travel by way of the Bear Mountain bridge. He was uncertain about this route, too. "They'll let me across the Bear Mountain bridge, won't they?" he asked...
...governmental paternalism as we have in the country, a number of public parks and playgrounds under the direction of Robert Moses, the Tri-Borough Bridge, new docks for the ocean liners, a health center for the poor in Harlem, and the west side highway on which you can travel from Canal Street to Poughkeepsie with-out stopping. As for driving out business, under the Fusion government the gain in factories from 193-35 was over six thousand, an increase of 35 per cent. And the police protection of life and property, though never perfect in such a city, has been...
Shearers are mostly nomadic Mexicans, who sleep in the open and travel in groups with their own Mexican cook. With electric clippers a good shearer can strip 140 goats a day. For each goat he is given a token which at the end of the week he turns in for about 4?. Shearers who have bad luck during the week at gambling may never get paid...
...Washington, Counsel for U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau John P. Wenchel charged Mrs. Emily Roebling Cadwalader, travel-loving Philadelphia socialite, with having connived with Husband Richard M. Cadwalader Jr. to reduce 1932 taxes, by transferring 400 shares of stock of their incorporated $2,000,000 superyacht Savarona to their attorney. Counsel Wenchel said she "engaged in fraudulent acts and deceptive gestures...
...even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which was said to have been paid enough to secure comfortable rooms. As Legionnaires were moved to better hotels last week their tempers improved...