Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing a drive on spies, saboteurs and undemocratic propagandists, Franklin Roosevelt bracketed them (for the first time) with Communists. Cracked the London Times's urbane, observant Sir Willmott Lewis: "You could feel the fellow travelers shivering in their shoes...
...first shot on the Western Front. The Germans had sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...
...absence of any sharp new angle, any strong new drive in Mr. Roosevelt's messages reflected the fact that he and his Cabinet (only Messrs. Hull. Murphy, Woodring, Edison and Ickes were at hand) had been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived...
Next evening, two hours after the deadline, Winchell got another call. He was told to drive to a theatre in Yonkers. At the wheel of a borrowed car-because too many people know his-he set out. On the way another car pulled alongside. A man got out, holding a handkerchief to his face. "Go to the drugstore on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue about 9 p. m.," said the stranger, and disappeared...
...Chicago's giggly Eleanor Dudley, University of Alabama junior, who got a hole-in-one on her fourth drive, then became so flustered she took an 8 on the next hole, wound up with 92 and failed to qualify for match play...