Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Nov. 2, under People, you say that public enemy Al Capone's old armored limousine was junked in Moab, Utah, after a wreck. Last week I paid 5? to see "Al Capone's $20,000, bulletproof, V16 Cadillac limousine" which was in a side-show at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. I don't begrudge the nickel, but I would like to know if Al had two such automobiles or if what I saw was just another Fair farce...
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lépine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"-ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming...
...many prints of ships had been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan...