Word: carly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...WHOSE CAR...
Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...guests a new ventilating fan. Assistant Superintendent Peter McKinley took charge, issued 20 gasmasks to volunteers, sent them down. They came back. The gas had penetrated their masks. Out along the dirt road leading from the nearby town of Athens came the whistles and bells of ambulances, police cars, special State mine-relief cars which had been stationed throughout the coal area. Underground the mine channels were strewn with debris. A shattered 12-ton hauling locomotive had been blown 50 ft. from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown...
Twenty-five thousand Jewish protestants against the "Passfield Declaration" on Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) introduced themselves by main force last week into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity 20,000). Perspiring police worked furiously to thin out the crush, finally drove a police car gently but firmly across the packed arena, ejecting by this means some 500 standees...
...Rhinebeck, N. Y., near where their son Laurel's car killed two in an automobile accident, Mr. & Mrs. Cassius S. Lawson were killed in their own car...