Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London where they just finished a 20-week run, she had so many admirers that Colonel de Basil bundled her into a taxi, drove to Lloyd's, took out a $10,000 insurance policy against her getting married. Chicago's Fresh Start
Feeling more like a parson than a President, last week Mr. Roosevelt bundled up warmly and set off in his limousine to make a succession of sick calls. Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace...
...court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic," ended up by saying "I must take a little more time to make up my mind." Last week, Judge Woolsey's mind was made...
...bought the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times for $1,500 in 1911, when he was 25. With it, he promptly began a lively campaign to clean up the municipal government. When he sold the Times to political adversaries he got $25,000. He and his wife bought a car, drove to Springfield, Ill., bought two more papers which Publisher Stern sold four years later for a fat profit. In 1919 he took over the Camden, N. J. Evening Courier, and, later, the Camden Morning Post. He spent $500,000, ousted U. S. Senator David Baird's machine, installed...
From Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove to nearby CCC Camp Meriwether. In the yellow pine mess hall he received a cake 18 in. tall, congratulated woodsters on having "the most artistic camp I have ever seen," and concluded: "I hope that Congress, when it convenes, will continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for another year...