Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elephant boat lived up to its name as far as power went, as it held a safe lead over the entire stretch. Winthrop, staging a mighty spurt near the end, drew up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab 25 yards from the finish line enabling the Leverett eight to cinch second place and a spot in the final. Dudley, despite a consignment of ringers, finished nearly 25 lengths in the rear...
...Hull and his "career boys" had been violating the neutrality law by allowing shipments of arms to Germany. Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author of the Merry-Go-Round, attended a State Department press conference at which his column instantly became the main topic of discussion...
...month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins got the slip lettered ELECTED. Promptly he promised to start suit for the $2,000 salary William Voisine drew while he was illegally president...
...Jones's hearers took this lambasting in stony silence. The next night at the final convention dinner in the Hotel Willard, their reaction to 68 honor guests was equally frank. Cabinet members Frances Perkins and Henry Wallace got a cool reception; Lammot du Pont drew thunderous applause; ultra-conservative Justice James Clark McReynolds brought down the house...
PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's turbulent primary campaign drew to a close tonight with John L. Lowis' bid for political control of the nation's second largest state the major issue in a bitter race which shattered the Pennsylvania. New Deal front, Licut, Gov. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mino Workers of America, CIO cradle and source of Lowis' financial strength in last summer's battle against "Little Steel," tonight predicted a 100,000 vote victory margin for his CIO state in Tuesday's primary...