Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedeviled by the problem of how the votes of the West were to be won in 1936 without the aid of AAA, President Roosevelt drove out to see the annual military pageant at Fort Myer, Va. This year's subject: "The Winning of the West...
...phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound boy. Aged 18, Poling was a spellbinder and preacher himself. Barely eight years out of Dallas (Ore.) College, this husky, clear-eyed six-footer ran for Governor of Ohio on the Prohibition...
Coach Clark Hodder drove his charges through the longest practice session of the sesson yesterday afternoon in preparation for today's game and tomorrow's real test with Exeter a first line position...
Efforts on the Continent by its leading wiseacres to guess the future Ethiopian-Italian policy of new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden drove them to arguing last week that inevitably it must be the same as that of Sir Samuel Hoare. To argue thus was worse than premature. "Tony" Eden was still boning up on Egypt and engaged in formal amenities (see p. 19). From London that distinguished wiseacre Augur observed in the New York Times...
...disturbed, but too late. Japanese drove the Young Marshal out and set up as Emperor of Manchukuo erstwhile Mr. Henry Pu Yi. His Majesty did not summon Butterfly Wu to his new Court. She, as a Chinese Cinema Queen, has continued onward & upward. The height of her ambition was to marry wealth. Came last week tidings of her wedding in Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, to a wealthy Christian wine merchant named Eugene Penn...