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City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Trucks Desert and Canaries for Independents | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...strike continued relatively peaceful, especially in Boston, where Supt. of Police Edward W. Fallon said that no cases of violence by men identified as strikers had been reported to police. The only arrests in the day were in Melrose, where five men were taken on charges of assaulting a truckman bound from Maine to Boston with a load of milk. The Boston Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter company. The fiction she wrote on the typewriter didn't sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor of the N. Y. Central, ordered Harvey Sentle to pay for damages to the Century. Truckman Sentle appealed. Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to review the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Seats & Crossings | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman Winchester last week: "This year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Truck Show | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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