Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugo LaFayette Black, otherwise known as the Junior Senator from Alabama- Junior, that is, to the Hon. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin-appeared in Washington traffic court last week because his automobile had been in collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas...
...Manhattan one Nellie, a trick cow who moos soprano over the radio, was led through the streets on her way to rehearsal, caused a traffic...
Thwarted, furious, the now frankly anti-Semite crowd rushed howling to demand that the Cathedral authorities refuse to harbor a Jewess. In the riot a traffic policeman was knocked down, trampled, bloodied. Finally with 300 police rescuers holding back the mob, sobbing, hysterical "Miss Universe" was sped in a limousine with blinds down, to a place of refuge undisclosed...
...Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation...
...Fifty infantrymen with machine guns were despatched from Egypt by airplane. The British War Office ordered the tracks between Cairo and Alexandria cleared of traffic to facilitate troop movements...