Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly by airplane, have been following that gleam up & down the West Scheduled to make two speeches on one July day, he delivered seven when great crowds blocked the highway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City...
...convention was transacted. Ever at his side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough...
...front. Between them and Makale, their next important objective, stood the 8,000 ft. mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere last week did the Ethiopians fight back very hard. Safely behind the Italian lines Emperor Haile Selassie...
Despite these absences the "A" like the "B" team was able to go to town on the offensive. They closed a hard drive by sending Moseley over from the 10 yard line to score...
...this long drive Blackwood was blocking nicely to aid Watt's line plunging and the good running of the "B" half backs, Leo Ecker and Arthur Oakes...