Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went one campaign into Chekiang Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
Professor C. H. Haring, Master's Residence, 935 Memorial Drive: Thurs, 3:30-4:30 o'clock, Fri. 2-3 o'clock...
...Cody jail one night, when Deputy Sheriff Noah Riley took Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
That attitude was the signal for a belated international Stop Hitler drive...
LONDON -- Europe's "Stop Hitler" drive tonight brought Great Britain and France into consultation on proposals for extension of their military entente to include general staff consultations with Soviet Russia's Red Army...