Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives and 30 Senators. Hale and bronzed...
Nevertheless, King Carol last week drew a ring of loyal troops around his palace. Queen Mother Marie asked him, please, to get rid of Lupescu and remarry his divorced wife Helen. The Cabinet formally asked him to send Lupescu away. Lupescu herself, badly frightened, offered to leave Rumania, if that was all his enemies wanted. But Carol assured her confidently that things were not so bad as that. On that one point he was every inch a king: he decreed that indispensable Mile Lupescu must...
With four victories and one defeat behind them, the Freshman baseball nine will meet St. Mark's at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Southborough. This will be the first game for the St. Mark's team. The Freshmen defeated Drew University 7-0, Penn Charter School 9-6, Gilman School 11-2, and Milton 16-6; they met defeat at the hands of Thayer Academy...
What he had promised, last week Premier "Gastounet" Doumergue tried to do. Making full use of the extraordinary powers granted him by Parliament in February he drew up 14 emergency decree laws to balance the French budget, sent them to President Lebrun for signature. With them went a note...
...years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ's body was painted by a French artist in the 14th Century. Guarded day and night by six stalwart carabinieri, its three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat which, too precious to be seen, has been sealed beneath a pulpit for 1,600 years...