Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more Red soldiers have to be flung over this line into the Far East, the better Adolf Hitler will be pleased. In Europe rumors that next spring is the time envisioned by Der Führer for a short, sharp drive to seize Leningrad began last week to take on some of the dignity of predictions. Nazi strategists, political as well as military, were said to feel that the greatest folly would be a German invasion a la Napoleon which would lose itself in vast Russia, but that internal Russian forces of disunion would overthrow the Bolshevik leaders once...
...Largo Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo...
...promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
Stocky, sandy-haired, affable Howard Wilkinson went to Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), Boston University, the Episcopal. Theological School in' Cambridge. He did Y.M.C.A. and Red Cross work during the War, is still an enthusiastic Reserve Corps Major, much in demand as a speaker in Red Cross drives. He likes to recall that some of the U. S. officers for whom he held services considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic...
...Timing test I run up a score of 7 . . . More than five indicates extra caution in passing other cars. My vision, in all its aspects, is either questionable or low. My hearing, however, is satisfactory. The professor tells me that "it would be to my advantage to endeavor to drive as little as possible." I thank him for putting it so kindly, and off to the tower very melancholy...