Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME erred in hurling the nasty epithet "scabs" at these boys, American citizens from American farms, especially as they were "eager to earn an honest penny" rather than live on charity, more especially as they, ''at the risk of a broken pate," watered and fed these suffering cattle and drove them under "protection from the blazing sun," and most especially since less than 10% of our citizens belong to any A. F. of L. union, the 90% being outcasts, '"scabs" in the eyes of these union leaders, the same as the men who undertook to water this stock...
...drum up an enthusiastic audience. But the newshawks who followed Franklin Roosevelt across the country had never seen such crowds, had never heard such cheers as greeted him. Through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois?at every city and hamlet there were people by the railroad tracks. Uninvited thousands drove hundreds of miles across the blistering plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks, other thousands waited for nothing more than a chance to cheer as ten air-conditioned cars?...
...families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never be harvested, drove over roads silted with the drifting topsoil of neighboring farms, passed signs which read, "You gave us beer. Now give us water." And, on -the speakers' stand at Devils Lake, leaning forward with his hands braced on the table holding microphones, he said in slow and sombre syllables: "I cannot...
...Roebling, N. J., 15 motorcyclists roared single-file along a highway. Careening drunkenly from the opposite direction, William C. Burton drove his car into the first cyclist, into the second, the third and so on down the line until he had bowled over...
...Plata, Md., a young Negro drove his stolen car to an outlying farm, entered the house under cover of night, edged carefully into a bed where Alton Davis was sleeping with his bride of two weeks. Undisturbed, Davis and wife slumbered on until morning...