Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S error arose from the fact that, on a recent visit to the White House. Governor Pinchot drove up in a blue Rolls-Royce-a borrowed car. Besides the State-owned Studebaker, Governor Pinchot has a Studebaker of his own. which he scrupulously uses on private expeditions. Mrs. Pinchot drives an Isotta-Fraschini; their son, Gifford Jr., a Lincoln...
Completing what he called "the toughest week" since March 4, President Roosevelt returned from Washington to Hyde Park to continue his vacation. He again commented on the height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round...
...messenger's uniform taxied along Ogden Avenue in the Chicago suburbs one afternoon last week, came to a halt at Smith's Barbecue near La Grange. Two men in a Ford sedan drove alongside the taxi...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent for an oxygen tent. It was never used but he bought it, presented it to the Emporia hospital...