Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started a hue & cry against Tom Dewey for not protecting his prospective witnesses.* Thereupon Tom Dewey had the city post a $25,000 cash reward for Lepke, dead or alive, in addition to $5,000 offered by the Federal Government. Pat came announcement of a nationwide crime drive, "the greatest ever" by the F. B. I., through the office of Tom Dewey's neighbor and contemporary, U. S. District Attorney John T. Cahill, friend and protege of Franklin Roosevelt's Janizary, Tommy ("Uncorkable") Corcoran...
...northern industrial area by air, call up all its 5,000,000 reserves, sit tight behind its Maginot Line and see what happened. A hint in favor of the last course comes from a remark General Gamelin made when asked if the French had considered making an early drive on the German Limes: "What! I do not propose to start the war by a battle of Verdun...
...night, after drinking a little too much, Reporter Bellairs tried to drive a horse & buggy across the Mississippi River...
...receivership, has passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...
...balance for Protestantism was shifty, sentimental, sensual Henry IV of Navarre. He did it by turning Catholic but ruling in the interests of Protestantism. Jesuits finally succeeded in murdering him as he was planning a Protestant crusade against the Habsburgs which had all the earmarks of a Stop Hitler Drive...