Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jadwin flood control plan. That he did not expect to win the primary was indicated when he declared: "It will do me no good to take my case, if I am robbed, into the [State] courts, so I'm going straight into the Senate." With sound-truck and ballyhoo Senator Long has been doing most of the talking for his man Overton. An outcast among regular Senate Democrats, Long flays Broussard for not favoring his plan "to break up big fortunes." He explains the Broussard opposition to Prohibition thus: "He was afraid enforcement of Prohibition would be so strict...
When modernity obtrudes upon religious art, pious folk usually protest. Last week a startlingly modern piece of church art was unveiled in old Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod. Engrossed mainly with fish and summer visitors, Chatham is respectable and religious. Most people might suppose that it would have no truck with a picture of Jesus Christ, beardless, garbed in corduroys and grey shirt without even a necktie, preaching from a dory manned by two Cape Codders. Such a supposition would be in error. Deeply, reverently pleased were the Chathamites who gathered last week in Old Congregational Church, founded...
...Boss" Brandle is the Jersey City organizer for the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers. He is also president of the New Jersey Building Trades Council. He organized a truck owners' association, operates a bonding company. His summer home is at Deal. N. J. He owns two homes in Jersey City where he also runs the Labor National Bank. For his good friend Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City in 1930 he paid a $60,000 fine for evading the Federal income tax. Two years later he paid a similar fine of $96,000 for himself...
...stocks of opium worth $10,000,000 belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare to seize treasure over which flies...
...Ashtabula, Ohio, a telephone company truck splattered mud on Leo Potti. Enraged Leo Potti went about cutting, chopping, sawing, shooting at the company's transcontinental telephone wires whenever he could. He was captured when he fell from a pole...