Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child, "Ray" Moley was reading Ivanhoe at 7. discussing the Trojan Wars at 8. At 19 he was graduated with a Ph.B. by Berea's Baldwin-Wallace College. Migrating to the neighboring village of Olmsted Falls, he served as superintendent of schools, was elected mayor at 21. Tuberculosis drove him to Denver. Two years later he was back in Ohio a well man, though to this day he has to be careful about his health. In Cleveland he got a job teaching high school history, while on the side he took his master's degree at Oberlin...
...choosey about its membership. Last week a plaintiff with a debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County's Democratic Boss Philip Krug. Receiver Duffy got in his car, drove up to the vast old cupolaed Belmont mansion. On its spacious veranda he was surprised to find several revenue agents, reading old magazines, in possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years...
...truck rattled up. Judge Bradley was thrown up into it. A dirty handkerchief was tied across his eyes. The truck drove a mile out of town, stopped at a lonely crossroad. Again the judge was asked to sign no more foreclosures. Again he refused. He was slapped and kicked, knocked to the ground, jerked back to his feet. A rope was tied about his neck. The other end was thrown over a roadside sign. The noose tightened. Judge Bradley wheezed, thought they were killing...
...Kalama, Wash., Ray Edwards got drunk, drove to the home of L. P. Brown, punched Brown, went to jail, tore up beds, wrecked the stove, ripped out electric fixtures, knocked out the marshal with a stove lid, set the jail afire...
...Washington Navy Yard last week sailed the Gloucester fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, carrying 20 deep-sea skippers to the capital to petition the Tariff Commission for higher fish duties. Up to the Navy Yard to greet them, as one good sailor to another, drove President Roosevelt. With him was Britain's Prime Minister. They had just returned from a day's cruise on the Sequoia...