Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, Premier Manuel Azana began retiring all officers suspected of complicity in the revolt. In frontier towns scores of escaping monarchists were arrested. The Marquis de Festival, at whose Seville house General Sanjurjo made his headquarters, was chased toward Gibraltar by Civil Guards. As the pursuers' car drew up alongside his car he jammed on the brakes, jumped out, waded into the Strait and began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail...
...Angeles Times Sunday Magazine by his sister, Mary Hoover Leavitt. Excerpts from "My Brother, the President": "The last time I saw him was more than three years ago at the inauguration. . . . My brother and I spent a last half-hour together. We had to talk hurriedly as the time drew near for him to plunge into his duties. He was interested in my new home here in Santa Monica. He admonished me to make it as up to date as possible...
Sirs: That was a neat distinction you drew between the ''legal" and "practical" aspects of the War Debts (TIME. July 18). But as self-interested Americans, don't you think you do yourselves a disservice to so emphasize the legalistic view, the view to which blind yahoos from our hinterland cling, unmindful of what is sighted by our international financial lookouts from the topless towers of New York? The men who know most about money tell us that until the War Debts are out of the way, international trade must plod and stumble. They tell us that...
...then a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary for violating the Espionage Act, made his fifth run for the Presidency, rolled up the surprising total of 919,799 votes. Four years later the Socialist party threw its lot in with Senator Robert Marion La Follette whose independent presidential candidacy drew 4,882,856 votes from the two old parties.* In 1928 Norman Thomas got only 267,420 votes...
...with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost $2,700,000 of the company's money and in 1923 the company was reorganized...