Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged him with all manner of crime and corruption, thus building up in the public prints the belief that scandal tainted his administration. Impeachment proceedings were started against four of his six successors, two of whom were removed from office. An attack by President Theodore Roosevelt on his honesty drove Haskell out as Democratic national treasurer. On rechecking, TIME finds its account of Haskell's career substantially correct with the following exceptions: 1) oil promoters did not figure in the Guthrie constitutional convention because in 1906 oil had not yet been extensively developed in Oklahoma; 2) Governor Haskell...
...line controlled by Mrs. Isabella Greenway, long-time friend of the Roosevelt family. She is a bobbed-haired, brunette Junior Leaguer of 23, whose late father was head of the Swift packing plant at Fort Worth. She had been invited to a dinner party given for Elliott. He drove her back to Fort Worth, went to see her once before proceeding to Nevada to establish residence for his divorce...
...that time, Miss Googins & mother were in Burlington. Iowa, at the home of her uncle, a banker named George C. Swiler. Mr. Swiler, on Saturday, got a marriage license for the young couple and the fateful news was at last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair...
Crawford's first return was a sliced backhand to Vines's baseline. Vines netted. On the next point, Crawford blocked the serve. Vines drove to the back hand corner and Crawford lobbed so skilfully that, trapped as he ran in, Vines could barely get back in time to push the ball weakly into the net. At 0-30, Vines served one fault and Crawford, forcing the rally on his second ball, passed him at the net. Vines was astounded. He shambled back to the baseline, served once more, netted Crawford's return to end the match...
...Bruce retired from active business in 1922 to devote his entire time to his flat decorative landscapes and formal figures. As a painter he is as methodical as he was a lawyer. He works eight hours a day. During the three years they spent together in Anticoli. Italy he drove his artistic mentor, tempera mental Maurice Sterne, to the verge of exhaustion by forcing him to keep the same rigorous hours. Best known Bruce canvas. Panorama of San Francisco, hangs in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. The Luxembourg has another of his landscapes...