Word: drew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These disorders drew protests against the use of troops in Happy Valley. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York State resigned as a director of the Bemberg and Glantzoff companies after futile attempts to induce their managements to settle the strike, to forego the use of armed forces...
Without ceremony, three automobiles drew up before Sir Arthur (Dunlop tires) Du Cros's comfortable stucco Craigwell House. Standing by the door were butlers, footmen, cooks, grooms, gardeners, royal marines-all who had served and guarded the King during his illness. Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue enameled with the royal monogram. Into the car behind the King's stepped Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's physician, and four trained nurses entered another...
Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
...Revolt." The reception of the new Tariff Bill in the House was so muddled, so many grievances of special groups were so massed together, as to give the appearance of a major revolt against the Hoover-dominated Committee which drew the Bill. The old axiom, "The tariff is a local issue," was never more clearly demonstrated...
Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize...