Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate for the A. F. of L. a strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired a car, started back to Elizabethton where he and the union committee, with their wives and children, settled down in a shack opposite the sheriff's office and lived there for three weeks, standing guard by turns with...
...King Edward, after laying his Armistice Day wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall last week, was greeted in the Royal Box at Albert Hall by veterans who serenaded him with the song Who's Your Lady Friend? His Majesty then drove directly to dine a deux with Mrs. Simpson at her home...
...Hungarian capital's school children had been let out for the day and marshaled as a double Lane of Honor extending from the railway station to the Dunapalota Hotel. Through this the Cianos drove beneath banners reading "LONG LIVE MUSSOLINI! LONG LIVE HUNGARY'S MIGHTY FRIEND!" At the Parliament Building only Hungarian Socialist Deputies, who can never forget that Fascism's founder was once Italy's fieriest Socialist, absented themselves but other Deputies and Cabinet Ministers cheered like whooping schoolboys. When Count Ciano appeared in the Diplomatic Box, he was addressed from the rostrum by Speaker...
...show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy also (and a news beat) was a skyscape drawn by Artist...
...harbor, 14 men-of-war boomed a 21-gun salute. Some seals popped up near one of the piers, added their barks to the crowd's cheers. Across the sky droned 250 Navy planes. Beneath them popped a display of daytime fireworks. The dignitaries drove across the bridge to San Francisco, repeated their speeches there. Not until they were carefully out of the way was the public admitted. Then, in the White House, President Roosevelt pressed his little gold key. On flashed green lights at each end of the bridge and a phalanx of cars charged up the ramps...