Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grace was granted because Alcock refused to take orders from Mayor Thompson after Mayor Cermak was elected and before he took office. That Alcock confidently expected to be ousted sooner or later was suggested by his care not to relinquish his civil service rating as deputy commissioner. He never drew the commissioner's larger salary. Last week he calmly went back to his old job as first deputy commissioner. Back to his old job as lieutenant went Commissioner Alcock's Chief of Detectives John Norton. To succeed him Commissioner Allman named Captain William Shoemaker...
...train drew into London, but Mr. MacDonald did not awake. No one called him until 7. Swallowing a cup of station tea, he drove to No. 10 Downing Street, put on fresh clothes, drove to Buckingham Palace-the place where Prime Ministers resign...
...President Frances Elizabeth Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the campus conspired to plant a lighted cigaret in Miss Willard's room as a joke. They drew lots; the task of placing the cigaret fell to Letter Writer Thomas' father, Philip...
...Citizen hired Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland to prosecute the complaint against Judge Bostwick before three nonresident judges. As the case drew to a close last week it crowded nearly all other news off the Citizen's front pages. Lawyer Baker's summation was printed in full for more than eight columns. Then came the verdict of "guilty." The Citizen, and all Scripps-Howard, crowed proudly. The headline of a typical S-H Little-Dramas advertisement began to suggest itself, something like: "The Judge Who Gave Like an Indian...
When Andrew ("Old Hickory'') Jack son clumped into the White House the U. S. dream was made flesh. "After An drew Jackson every boy was being told he might be President of the United States." The North began to hustle. "Business ceased to be a mere occupation which must be carried on in accordance with the moral code. It had itself become part of that code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred...