Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings. I will sail in two days and I will see you and embrace...
...companies with: "I have not the legal background to make comment on that." 7) Advised separation of manufacturers and operators. 8 ) Called U. S. military and commercial aviation the best in the world. When Col. Lindbergh finally rose in a roar of applause, policemen shielded him from a surging wave of would-be handshakers. Newshawks scrambled for typewriters and telephones to describe what some of them considered the best show in Washington since President Roosevelt's inauguration. Col. Lindbergh was succeeded on the witness stand by the thin-haired flyer who followed him across the Atlantic. Clarence Duncan Chamberlin...
...means of checking the sudden crime wave which has overrun the state, Governor Ely has recommended that all the police forces be coordinated into a single body. This coordination, it is hoped, will result in a more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces...
...Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short-wave radio set and decorated with the sheriff's badge. With Blunk at the wheel, and another hostage, the two fugitives set off across country...
...then if you immediately rush to the possible explanation of a violent post-war crime wave, or a change in the character of the population, you encounter the additional facts that this apparently high rate of crime for Boston has existed for over fifty years; that the Boston courts show a comparatively high proportion of convictions; and that Boston has also the highest ratio of policemen to population...