Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems we might use, how much it would cost, how long it wrould take-everything. Yes, start in right now." That afternoon, as is his custom. Col. McCormick climbed into his old Rolls-Royce roadster and drove into town for a night's work, beginning with an editorial conference, where everyone talked about the weather. Next day the Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer: 100.1° HEAT IS JUNE RECORD But a much more important story...
Boston streets were lined with cheering throngs (it was Bunker Hill holiday) as Franklin Roosevelt and his eldest son motored through the streets accompanied by motorcycles and a mounted escort. Followed by Governor Ely of Massachusetts, they drove through Concord to Groton. Too late to see his wife (who had been there the day before but sped off to New York on her own rapid itinerary), the President stopped in his car before the house of Mrs. William F. Horton to greet his benign, white-haired mother who was staying there, then drove on half a mile to the school...
...Angeles, Irwin Meyer took three girls for a ride in his automobile. Resentful because they resisted his advances, he drove the car petulantly into a telephone pole, injured all three. When the girls sued, ill-humored Irwin Meyer contended they should have known better than to ride with an ill-humored driver...
...liveried chauffeur in a limousine drove to Sing Sing prison and delivered a small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...
...Engineer Magowan, making his last run, with a second-rate engine in the teeth of a blizzard, swore he would get to division point on time; he drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail...