Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party consisted mainly of bills bearing the names of his sponsors on the platform-Senator Nye's war-without-profit bill, Senator Thomas' bill to guarantee farmers their crop-production costs, Representative Lemke's farm mortgage bill, Representative Sweeney's bill "to drive the money changers from the temple." To these he added for good measure the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill and the Administration's utilities holding company bill. For each one, his audience applauded vigorously. Having progressed from Page 7 to Page 12 of his manuscript, Priest Coughlin stopped as abruptly...
...evening at Boston's palaces of refreshment left its marks upon my equilibrium when, driving away from one of the houses in search of a final noggin, my progress down Memorial Drive was interrupted by an M. D. C. squad car, equipped complete with two officers and radio. An unaccountable glow of happiness had compelled me to dash with elan through a yellow light, which happiness the officers did not seem to share. In reply to their greeting inquiry as to whether I wanted to pay a hundred dollar fine, I parried that I had but two dollars...
After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...Chicago, while the Cubs were beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-to-3, a line drive hit Pitcher Dizzy Dean in the ankle, knocked him down, caused him to be carried off to a hospital...
...teamster; who likes to haggle with dealers over fine books; who plays golf every Wednesday afternoon at Menlo Country Club or at Burlingame; who lunches at the Palace Hotel's "cabinet table" with local bigwigs; who is a regent of the University of California; who helped Hiram Johnson drive the Southern Pacific Railroad out of power 25 years ago but who now appears to be an archConservative, an apostle of property rights, counsel for bankers and Red-hater extraordinary...