Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1936 the Travelers' Insurance Co. in St. Louis, Mo. received an agitated telephone call from one John Womack. His voice trembling, Mr. Womack related that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external...
...Truck fans filled the Boston Garden to capacity to see what they hoped would be repetition of the B. A. A. Games of a year...
Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...
...Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Robert Zwikel was caught making an illegal turn. While Officer Robert Fall wrote a summons, Driver Zwikel closed the car's windows, locked its doors, refused to come out. Officer Fall called a tow truck, which hauled Zwikel & car to headquarters. There Detective Walter Storms broke a window with his pistol butt. Warned Driver Zwikel as they jailed him: "You'll make my wife angry. I was supposed to meet her an hour...
...Elmer Oliphant (Purdue 1914), Ed Garbisch (Washington & Jefferson 1921), "Light Horse" Harry Wilson (Penn State 1924) played varsity football three or four years at their respective alma maters and four more for Army.* This situation roiled many an opponent. In 1928-29 the Naval Academy refused to have any truck with the Army footballers, and the Big Ten for the past three years has banned games with Army. Nevertheless, West Point officials insisted that athletics were as much a part of Army requirements as book learning and every cadet should have an equal opportunity to prove his ability in competitive...