Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Lowell, whose age and deafness lately cost him his driver's license (TIME. Sept. 14) had been vainly trying to follow the speeches by reading advance press copies stuffed under his coat. When his turn came he jumped up. scooted to the front of the platform, croaked: "I have heard a great deal of talk about the peril to our institutions and the peril to freedom in our modern world today. From what I know of the lessons of history, our institutions and our freedom are not in peril today. . . . What I have learned from history is that...
...beards Olof Krans painted many a Rousseauesque scene of life in the old colony. Most startling was a group of shawled and coated women huddled about what looked like a guillotine on a platform over a little river. They were the women of Bishop Hill operating a primitive pile driver...
...Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner Louis Crocker, onetime Harvard student, announced that Driver Lowell had failed the examination, turned down his application...
...between 50 and 60. Of the rest, most traveled regularly at 45 or faster. Only one drove at 35. The average for the whole group was 49 m. p. h., which is 5 m. p. h. faster than the average legal state limit. Explained Safe-Driver Emmett M. Williams of Georgia, who has driven 1,000,000 miles in 28 years without accident: "I drive pretty fast. At times I've hit 90 m. p. h. I think you ought to get out of the way of folks...
Handing down a decision in favor of the pie-selling driver, His Honor Judge Edwin Max Konstam vigorously cried: "I know of nothing more shameful or un-English than to conceal such a device as this so-called 'testing clock' secretly in a van with a view to catching the driver loafing! It is perfectly legitimate to have an unconcealed clock device so installed as to record what the men are doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this...