Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning when the mayor drives to his office-in the winter to the fine old city hall in lower Manhattan; at present to a fine old house in Queens overlooking the East River, rented as a "summer city hall" -he is almost lost in the back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across...
...legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...swath nearly ten miles wide and ten miles deep into Rightist positions west of Madrid (TIME, July 19). By last week the Rightists had had to halt their own offensive against Santander on the North in order to release enough troops and planes to check the Leftist drive. They had it retarded after nine days...
...national drive against syphilis which Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. began last autumn, by last week had reached a high plateau of accomplishment. Dr. Parran and Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association each issued a new book on the subject last week and a half dozen similar books were already in bookstores.* The A. M. A. was ready to lend doctors a talkie from which they could learn how to diagnose and treat syphilis. This technical film, prepared by A. M. A. and U. S. Public Health Service experts, matched a "popular" film, prepared...
Illinois a fortnight ago responded to the anti-syphilis drive by forbidding marriage unless both the man and the woman produced a doctor's certificate that they were free from both syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, July 12). Several other States have bills of the same purport in their legislatures. Last week the young editors of the genteel Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Gould, published a syphilis article by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Parran...