Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Fisher starred on the mound for Thayer by striking out twelve men, and in the second inning he took advantage of a long drive so as to score a home run on an error...
WASHINGTON--Republican forces in the House renewing their offensive against President Roosevelt's $5,000,000,000 anti-depression drive charged today that Communists throughout the country are spreading propaganda in favor of the legislation. The charges, which followed administration accusations that propaganda against the program is being organized on a "chain letter" basis, plunged the House into bitter debate during a session of less than three hours...
...attractive wife of Mexico's President General Lázaro Cárdenas (see p. 16), last week headed a drive to help raise funds to compensate former...
...quite masses its laughs through mounting situations, merely sprinkles them brightly at regular intervals. As slight of build as the kids it treats of, What a Life is, like them, young, lively, fast on its feet, full of agonies a first kiss or even an ice-cream soda could drive away...
...Climaxed its drive on what President Roosevelt considers the monopolistic practices of the cement industry. The industry has long maintained that local monopolies can be avoided only by a cooperative, nationwide, delivered-price system including both production cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through...