Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks thought that real labor action was imminent when the President called Congressional leaders in Washington by long distance and asked them to meet him on the day of his return to Washington. Then on a sunny afternoon he drove down to Warm Springs station, waved good-by to 100 genial natives, to his two mules Tug & Hop who were also present drawing a wagon, and set out for Washington...
...appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought to be the man who quietly arranged the Court decision, for he is trying to woo back to the State some of the industries which Long laws drove away and by the Court decision he could help to reassure them without offending the gullible electorate which still worships the murdered Huey. Whatever the explanation, it was undeniable that the dead hand of Long was losing its grip on the Pelican State...
...when the youths opened fire. When one policeman and four of the youths, members of the tiny Independence Party, lay dead, the car was found to be loaded with bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering...
...what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students drove up on their way to snatch another Wisconsin corpse. Quick-witted, they transferred the Northwestern cadaver to their buggy. One drove away to Chicago, the other got into the Northwestern buggy, pretended he was the corpse. In due course the drinkers left the tavern, continued their journey toward Chicago. Soon...
...drove off with this young fellow in his roadster and I was left here with her children...