Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarface Snorkey had grown glummer & glummer, angrier & angrier. He scowled at Carpenter Ryder, whispered with his lawyers, mopped his brow. The jury had waked up, was following the testimony with wide-eyed interest. Leaving the courtroom one day Snorkey and his bodyguard, Philip D'Andrea, brushed aside Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley to get into an elevator. Two days later D'Andrea was arrested, searched in the corridor by Secret Service men before gaping policemen, charged with carrying a concealed weapon (.38 calibre revolver). D'Andrea showed a badge reading "Deputy Bailiff of the Municipal Court," was told...
Reception. The plan's success depended on country-wide acceptance; small outlying banks had to be brought in as well as the huge city institutions. With this in mind the hoorahs of Wall Street were carefully hushed so that small-towners could be heard giving thanks, cheering...
...words: "Lindberghs . . . crash." In a moment it was clear that both Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh were safe. They had been fished out of the filthy Yangtze River at Hankow by a lifeboat crew from the British aircraft carrier Hermes. Still, a crash was a crash and many a page-wide headline shrieked the news that afternoon. Next day it was being called a "ducking...
...next few days three more flights were made, at night and in the rain. Be fore the Navy officially accepts or rejects the Akron she will have undergone at least 75 hr. of trials, including a rigorous test of turning radius, a speed test with wide open motors, a climbing test, a 48-hr, flight to recapitulate all conditions...
...More Banks. It was Founder Amadeo Peter Giannini's idea that Transamerica should take the lead in nation-wide branchbanking. Last year the annual report said hopefully: "It is now generally conceded that the trend of public opinion is increasingly favorable to the extension of branchbanking." But Mr. Walker's letter of last week reported: "There is no apparent likelihood that nation-wide branchbanking will be authorized by law in the near future." He then confirmed the recent rumor that Transamerica will sell its controlling interest in banks, chief of which are Bank of America, New York...