Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another disaster threatened last week when the Ohio river rose to the highest flood stage since 1913, burst its hanks, drove thousands from their homes, killed eight...
...politics is the art of getting people to do what you want, President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first fortnight in office performed as a consummate political artist. His frank, cheerful, direct methods drove Washington correspondents to superlatives of praise. He had Congress eating out of his steady hand. In two weeks he put through nearly two years' worth of important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing...
...been getting quick service and considerable publicity from its extensive use of the transatlantic telephone, kept the wires hot to Moscow but could learn nothing. Were the six Britons being exiled, tortured, executed? At the end of 48 hours, 46-year-old Allan Monkhouse. Moscow director of Metropolitan-Vickers, drove up in a limousine to the British Embassy...
Despite the fact that suicide is a crime in Church & some States, another kind of banking morality was evident last week: Howell Getty, cashier of First National Bank of Wilmington, Pa., left a directors' meeting, drove two miles out on a country road and shot himself through the head. In the automobile, atop his hat and glasses, was found a note: "The $50,000 insurance policy which the bank holds on my life will pay the depreciation on the bond account and allow the bank to re-open...
...greatest trackman Robertson had ever trained, who last year broke the world's record for the 400-meter run in the Olympics when he ran Benjamin Bangs Eastman into the ground (TIME, Aug. 15). Coach Robertson lifted Carr in his arms, carried him to his own car, drove him to a hospital. Doctors found Carr's pelvis and both ankles fractured, his track career finished...