Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform their lines in committee for a second and successful drive...
...Madison Square Garden to launch his first Presidential campaign in 1896. Such job-seekers as Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive for his National Union for Social Justice before an apathetic audience in Detroit, followed by a triumph in Cleveland, last week put himself to the critical test in Manhattan...
...boat they kept piling in until there was scarcely a room in the palace or in any hotel to be had. Nearly out of his mind was Stockholm's chief of police. Law-abiding Swedes are accustomed to see their own royal family shop, go to the theatre, drive about town completely unprotected. Suddenly the chief of police was called upon to produce so many escorts and bodyguards for visiting royalty that he nearly ran out of detectives...
After the wedding breakfast came a drive through cheering streets to the Castle of Haga where Denmark's new Crown Princess laid her bridal flowers of lilies and myrtle on her mother's grave. The Danish royal yacht Dannebrog was waiting to take them back to Denmark...
Hollywood has been untiring in its efforts to drive home the moral object-lesson that a female member of the social register may possibly be no "lady" at all, and that a girl of low extraction quite often possesses those qualities which are said to adorn the true gentlewoman. It is some time before Ian Hunter, after waking up to find himself the husband of Bette Davis, realizes that he has a jewel. Old friends seek to draw him away, and there is the lure of the gilded siren, whose marriage to another has not, it appears, diminished her affection...