Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back on his coat, clapped on his hat and, piling into a taxi with Mayors Hoan, Holcombe and Walmsley, ordered: ''To the White House." For 15 minutes President Roosevelt listened sympathetically to his callers, promised them nothing, advised them to go to the Treasury. Thither they drove to see Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board and Undersecretary Acheson. No, the Federal Reserve had no money to lend them but perhaps the R. F. C. had. Around taxied the four mayors to inter view R. F. C. Chairman Jones. No. R. F. C. had nothing for them either...
...middle 19th Century softwood clipper ships raced with light cargoes from Australia and China to Europe, riding high, running dry, sailed by full crews of crack sailors, by masters who drove their ships under full sail all the way.∙ They carried tea and gold in a hurry. Last of the cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet...
Died. Dr. John Grier Hibben, 72, president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after...
...same speaking program as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College, at a W. O. N. P. R. luncheon in Manhattan was Funnyman Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, To make sure he "wouldn't say nuttin outa line," Durante had prepared his speech in advance. Excerpt: "I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers. I'm not talkin' at this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty...
...birthday treat; but when she collected all his old flames for lunch and nearly ruined his new affair, it was almost too much. Father and daughter both thought they saw through one another, hut mutual affection made them oversuspicious. Though Lindsay finally lost him his good job and nearly drove him wild with anxiety about her morals, his fondness for her grew. When she sent her fiance round to ask her father's permission, and the young man explained to him that Lindsay was oldfashioned. Carl's modern-parent's cup was full...