Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-three years old and wracked by a fever of 103, South America's greatest champion against North America tumbled tragically last week from Power. He fought the Monroe Doctrine. He would have no truck with the Kellogg Pact. He flouted the Pan-American projects of Calvin Coolidge, did his best to blight the effect of Herbert Hoover's South American goodwill tour. Yet few U. S. citizens ever knew the name of their Great Enemy: Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...
Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Joe Benedetto was not sorry to learn that the city block at 213th St. and Broadway which she leases and runs as a truck farm with her husband and nine children will be sold, thereby putting an end to the last farm on the island. Said she: "Things have not been very good for the farmer this year...
...Spanish Army in Morocco against the Riff. Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government. At the flying field, cheering followers tossed him to their shoulders, carried him three miles to the city gates, where, balanced precariously on the roof of a motor truck, he rode through the streets in triumph. At the gates of Government Palace he cut reporters short...
...truck careened through the streets of Langhorne, Pa., was halted by a speed officer; The driver paid $10 for breaking the speed law. His cargo: the law library of Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice...