Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets to the Union Station. He boarded his private car accompanied by his usual batch of secretarial assistants, his daughter-in-law Betsey Roosevelt and an unannounced addition, William C. Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Twenty-four hours later he was in Warm...
...greatest number, 2,400, in the big Dodge plant which ordinarily employs 25,000. Meantime negotiations had been going on in the executive offices at the Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began, when K. T. Keller, president of the company, and Vice President Herman Weckler drove up to the offices, the gates were closed and pickets kept them from entering. They retired to downtown Detroit. When Adolph Germer, C.I.O. representative, and Organizer Frankensteen arrived at the Chrysler plant for scheduled negotiations they telephoned downtown to Mr. Weckler to say it was all a mistake. The company officers...
...refuse to start. "It has been rejected," announced the Bolshevik interpreter, "and it is now sent to specialists for analysis!" The next tractor snorted off beautifully and during the Ambassador's visit no other breakdown appeared. After dropping in at the Medical Clinic and Nursery, the party drove to Kharkov's Turbogenerator and Electric Machinery Plant. Here many workers were standing about puffing cigarets, so occupied in conversing among themselves that they scarcely noticed the Ambassadorial party. In the turbine section every worker seemed sweating for dear life on a rush order. At the stately Kharkov "House...
...miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival for "ransom or reward or otherwise." Since the victim was missing seven days...
Seven points behind his center, left winger Austie Harding sank 21 goals and set up 11 scoring plays to amass a total of 32 points. The other members of the Stubbs 1937 outfit were likewise busy and drove in many a goal to run the Crimson total to 101 of goals and 81 assists for a grand total of 182 points for the season...