Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair volunteered $185,000 more, to help make the G. O. P. books seem balanced. The money was delivered in one bundle of Government bonds and the total, $260,000, was exactly one-half of the $520,000 G. O. P. deficit. "It was just like a Red Cross drive," said Mr. Hays...
...when she felt pain in the night. These enemies were the "mortal minds" most energetic in attacking her beliefs; they hung like a pack of phantoms around her neat house in Chestnut Hill and she could hear their painful voices screaming in the dark. Once she went for a drive with Mr. Dickey and said this to him on their return...
...years ago, after the death of famed Editor Victor F. Lawson, the News was bought by Walter A. Strong and a group of Chicago businessmen. The new house will contain a Lawson Memorial Room, panelled with carved oak taken from the Lawson residence on Lake Shore Drive...
...International Conferences of American States yet held. Because the meeting did not bring forth something like a full-fledged League of American nations, it is said to have failed in its purpose. But when 20 nations, large and small, with a wide variety of interests, are trying to drive abreast, to accomplish anything at all is an achievement...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...