Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemaddicts who know that it invariably betokens a husband whose jealousy will drive him to distraction. Otto Kruger's presence in this picture will not add materially to its suspense. Nonetheless, his performance is the most convincing single feature of the entertainment. As Vanessa, Helen Hayes, who last week announced that she would return to the stage for good after one more cinema rôle, contributes her anguished smile and her catch-in-the-throat voice. Robert Montgomery's efforts are improved by the exchange of his customary whimsey for a set of sideburns...
Last week with all the publicity that a U. S. President and two of his Cabinet can drum up, the Treasury launched its drive to distribute government bonds among private investors. In the Oval Room of the White House before floodlights and newsreel cameras Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Postmaster General Farley put on a little act which in thousands of cinemansions throughout the land shows President Roosevelt buying the first "baby bonds." They were the "salesmen"; the President the "prospect...
...rest of the 1934 coaches' squad has been swept out of Soldiers Field by Dick Harlow's drive to give the Crimson a new deal, and three of their places were filled yesterday by Harlow's deciding on J. Neil Stahley as Freshman mentor, Rae Crowther as Varsity line coach, and Mike Palm as tutor to the backfield...
Last week, the secret being officially out, most correspondents still kept mum. Daring, an Associated Pressman cabled that he had just ventured to drive rapidly past Berlin's secret air bases "without stopping," adding: "Barbed wire encloses them. Each is screened off by old forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four...
...kind of education possible to meet the increasing complexities of life. In the last analysis, higher education and society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless provision is made for the future by re-establishing the public schools to their former position. The Federal government, under the drive of depression, has obviated many of the so-called state's rights. It can and should divert money from building an air force "second to none" to building citizens with minds capable of preserving peace...