Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North. Through his huge staff telescope he could see it distinctly. He and the respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
...Malta fever, it was announced, suddenly attacked Cardenas again in force. He was sweating with it, his joints swelled, he ached, his temperature was high and he felt weak. He had lost about 33 lb. To suggestions that he take a convalescent trip, he snorted. Last week he arose, drove to the San Jacinto suburb of Mexico City and spent two hours patting more cattle at the National Cattle Exhibition...
...motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen and a dozen cars filled with detectives in constant touch by radio with police headquarters, the President drove to his town house on East 65th Street through streets which had been cleared of all traffic for half an hour before his arrival. Although it was dinner hour on a rainy night, the city's heavy traffic was again disrupted in order to drive him from his town...
...State Phillips and the President's Naval Aide. Also on hand was the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, anxious to watch the Canadian who London feared might throw over the Empire as a trade ally in favor of the U. S. Off in a White House limousine drove Mr. King to the Canadian Legation, recently vacated by Canadian Minister William Duncan Herridge, brother-in-law of outgoing Prime Minister Bennett. Promptly he set matters right with the Empire by announcing that he had really intended to visit London before Washington but had changed his plans because of the impending...
...drably respectable Brown's Hotel on Dover Street, London, sat dapper, bemonocled George II, by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic...