Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinance parking near the center of the Square will be limited to one hour from 7 o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock at night. Double and over-night parking will also be checked by the new drive. For a second violation of the regulation there will be a slight fine, while third offense will require appearance in court...
...similar drive against over-time parking was carried out over a year ago when some 750 students were victims of police vigilance. As at that time, Police vehemently deny that the action is directed at undergraduates. Said Captain Canney yesterday: "We have no trouble with Harvard men . . . they're law-abiding, on the whole...
...Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court. He accused investment bankers of a "sitdown" against the Securities Act of 1933 utilities men against the Utility Holding Company Act, employers against the Wagner Labor Relations Act and demanded: "How can you expect the working men and women to be religiously reverent of the letter...
...hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called it The Fleet's Inl Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged for a chance to hang it in a place of honor...
...loud with the beat of thousands of narrow wings. Suddenly, while the rest flew on to the canyons beyond, a great segment of the swallow cloud broke off, swooped down on the Mission. Then began Capistrano's annual battle of birds as the swallows fought to drive interloping swifts and sparrows from their last year's nests. Meantime cameras whirred, radio announcers chattered and Dona Magdalena Murillo, 89, triumphantly croaked her tale of watching the swallows' clocklike arrival and departure every year since childhood...