Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marched into Federal Courts seeking injunctions. From the Mahoning Valley Citizens Committee the Governor received a message: "Your stand is commensurate with the acts of a true statesman and patriot." But in his own capital 700 C. I. O. delegates assembled to "pledge the forces of organized labor to drive Governor Davey from the political life of the State and the nation." Said the Governor: "I probably am committing political suicide...
...Recent disclosures of foreign engineers who have now left the country as a result of the Soviet Union's drive to get rid of foreigners, form a vivid picture of industrial chaos from top to bottom. Foreigners having business with Soviet organizations report them in confusion. They start dealing with one set of executives only to have them disappear and be succeeded by another, who know nothing of what has gone before and who themselves soon disappear, to be succeeded by another set of novices...
...many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through Harrisburg to Montreal, Ottawa, then south again through Lake Placid, Albany, Saratoga Springs, Mirror Lake and West Point...
...motto of whose red, white and green flag was INVINCIBLE, fell. At the end hardly a shot was fired. But every bridge across the Nervión River had been blown up as was the great Guecho arms factory, one of the prime prizes in Franco's drive on Bilbao. As was expected, Anarchists ran berserk for a few hours before the city was abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved in a few faces scowled from the sidewalks, but for the most part Bilbaína housewives who stayed in the town greeted...
...York Stock Exchange volume climbed above 1,000,000 shares on two days but trading lately has been dull as ditchwater. Meanwhile Wall Street began to get acquainted with C. I. O. at first hand as organizers for the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union prepared for a September drive...