Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earle, Ark. by unidentified vigilantes. Preacher Williams and plump Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis socialite and social worker, got into an automobile, started out for the funeral. They never got there. As they sat in their car in front of an Earle drugstore, sipping Coca-Colas, six well-dressed men drove up, seized them, commandeered their car, forced them to drive a mile outside town...
...French Foreign Office drove Ambassador Straus and formally demanded of the Socialist Blum Cabinet that it send police to clear the American Hospital's basement. No policemen budged. The strikers in the basement demanded 1) lunch; 2) the 40-hour week and all other benefits conferred by France's new Socialist labor laws, although they had not yet passed the Senate; and 3) minor concessions, such as that each employe should receive "three days' holiday whenever a member of the employe's family is about to be married...
Arkansas & the Constitution. ". . . The Louisiana Purchase . . . has always had a special significance for me. I am interested in it for family reasons because Robert R. Livingston,* our Minister to France, negotiated the purchase by direction of President Thomas Jefferson-and I must admit that he drove a very shrewd bargain. . . . [Jefferson] had the courage to act for the benefit of the United States without the full and unanimous approval of every member of the legal profession...
...from the administrative office of Viceroy of Ethiopia to the aristocratic, hereditary dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly speech in praise of Fascist works in general and in particular of Benito Mussolini, "the Duce...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...