Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With most of the country's banks again open and off his mind for the moment, President Roosevelt drove the rest of his legislative program ahead at top speed last week. While eating a tray luncheon in his office he signed his $500,000,000 Economy Bill. His pen & ink thereby marked an historic transfer of fiscal power from the Congress to the Presidency. Heretofore Congress has appropriated specific sums to be spent as ordered on veterans and Federal employes. Under the new law Congress authorizes a lump sum expenditure, leaves it for the President to spend within certain...
...Nation of Bandits!" Meanwhile in London last week, numerous subjects of George V whose sympathies remain with China gathered outside British Broadcasting House and cried, "Shame! Shame!" when a limousine drove up with Chief Japanese League Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka. As he entered the building an English voice shouted, "Japan is a nation of bandits...
...been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William...
...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...
Ticen J. Byram, 56, hitched up his team one cold morning last fortnight, drove with his wife into Dove Creek, Colo. When they got back to their ranch that afternoon Mrs. Byram hurried into the house to build a fire. "I'll be in as soon as I put the horses away," said her husband...