Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revived hopes for the Copeland Pure Food & Drugs bill when North Carolina's Bailey and Missouri's Clark, who led the fight which drove it from the Senate floor last month, announced that they and Senator Copeland were now substantially agreed, that passage of the bill this session seemed assured...
...jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length & breadth, pointing out plants he had fired. When he was talked out, flabbergasted officials tallied up 125 fires, $1,000,000 losses...
...millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing to let his publications hang on to their traditional politics, like the old-style Liberalism of John Bull, the Conservativism of The People. Publisher Elias is Britain's Socialist Press...
Since fear of Adolf Hitler drove France and Italy into each other's arms, it is no longer polite to remind Italians that French bombing planes from Corsica could be over Rome in less than an hour. Last week three of France's ablest pilots, North Atlantic Flyer Maurice Rossi, South Atlantic Flyer Jean Marmoz, one-time War Ace Paul Girardot, climbed to the controls of three Potez "56"' pursuit planes in Paris last week and took off with Air Minister General Victor Denain and other French officials for Rome...
...Ziegler. He beamed when Treasurer Earle Lewis came in to report that next year's subscriptions had exceeded his greatest expectations. "That's grand," said Herbert Witherspoon and crumpled suddenly to the floor, the statement of his plans clutched tightly in his hand. Hour later a hearse drove up to the shabby stage entrance, carried Herbert Wither-spoon away-dead from an attack of coronary thrombosis...