Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the President missed his swim. At 9 o'clock with wife & son in a big limousine, he set off on the 70-mile drive northward to Atlanta. At 11 o'clock he stopped at Fort McPherson on the city's outskirts to be greeted by the Commandant, by Georgia's Senators Russell and George. All that Atlanta saw of Governor Eugene Talmadge, archfoe of the New Deal, that day was a stuffed effigy, red suspenders and all, hanging in the Capitol grounds and bearing the legend "Coolidge did not choose to run. Gene needn...
...offered it, so that the Phillips children could attend school in the U. S. In Canada Mr. & Mrs. Phillips never found a house large enough to suit them. After two years, therefore, Mr. Phillips, aged 51, resigned and retired once more to Beverly, Mass. There he headed the Massachusetts drive of Herbert Hoover's private Committee on Unemployment until in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt, one of his old Wartime friends, called him back to be Undersecretary of State. Such is William Phillips' career, a career which never put him in a tight place, diplomatic or otherwise. But capable...
...priest who had been handcuffed to Lij Yasu for nine years. ¶ From the southern front came a succession of contradictory stories which slowly boiled down to a composite rumor that the Italian advance had been completely halted, that Gorrahei, largest town captured by the Italians on their recent drive, had been abandoned by Italian colonial troops, but not yet reoccupied by nervous Ethiopians. Italian headquarters still insisted that they were using Gorrahei's airport, a field some distance from the town. ¶ Mystery man of the week was H. H. Mohammed Yayou, Sultan of Aussa, a plains district...
...group, Oliver P. Bolton '39, Edward W. Schoyer '39, and Peter F. Cunningham '39, will also have charge of the drive for old clothes which is soon to commence through the Yard. In connection with this baskets are to be placed in each entry of every dormitory and a resident appointed to solicit cast-off garments...
Even with gasoline at a new war price of $1.20 per gal. many Italians continued to drive their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State...