Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of our citizens." From Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
...stood--threatening at the gates of Paris. The fact is that he did not and through his failure the war came to a long, frightfully wasting deadlock. Today the world must guard against the possible resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes--that spirit which drove Prussia on in 1914, under frenzied leaders and wild ambitions, till her armies were sweeping East and West across Europe like huge machines, and general staffs and supreme commands directed the human slaughter from safe posts in the rear...
...revived Sinclair EPIC, rising from the ashes of the Democratic convention, drove his opponents to fresh despair while his naïve economic reasoning infuriated them. To them, there seemed to be no effective way of bridling this evangel of nonsense. What Mr. Sinclair proposed to do, as they saw it, was to plant a system of Red State-ownership in California, expand it, without limit, until it crushed private enterprise. EPIC, Mr. Sinclair pointed out, could also stand for "End Poverty In Civilization...
...That's all now," whispered his mother and they got into the car and drove to Dedinje Palace, on a hill outside the city, through cheering lines of schoolchildren. There at home his brothers Princes Tomislav and Andreja were waiting for him. When the door was shut it was safe...
...boys" who loaned him $1,000 to help complete his discovery well, he gave $100,000. He bought a 450,000-acre ranch in Mexico, married again, this time his secretary, now 26. East Texas made Dad Joiner rich but it nearly drove the rest of the oil industry to the poor house. It was East Texas that tumbled the price of crude oil to 10? per bbl. in 1931. It was East Texas that made President Roosevelt put the oil industry under the Secretary of the Interior. And it was East Texas that incited the gasoline price wars which...