Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusading New York World-Telegram. Kaplan was accused of drawing an exorbitant salary ($21,800 per year) not counting "gifts" the union voted to him. Union members complained that his bodyguards beat them up, forced them to contribute to his legal defense fund, deprived them of jobs, drove them out of the local. On the side he operated a projection machine manufacturing company with which exhibitors found it wise to deal...
After two hours the Red Room door swung open and Secretary Mills and Professor Moley walked out. For ten minutes the 31st and 32nd Presidents were left alone in private conversation. Then while the White House secretariat was issuing a curt communique reporting "progress," Governor Roosevelt drove to the Mayflower Hotel. There he ordered and consumed tea & cinnamon toast while dressing to dine with the Washington correspondents at the National Press Club...
Next the Royal regalia was brought to the robing room of the House of Lords. Shortly before noon the King & Queen drove over from Buckingham Palace, were assisted into their gear and began their solemn, stately walk to the two gold thrones in the House of Lords. Once a year His Majesty opens Parliament for the excellent reason that he has closed it, and this salutary closing (a formality performed by the Lord Chancellor) kills hundreds of bills which have not yet passed both Houses, thus clearing the Parliamentary decks for action...
...pageant which many a New Yorker thought never to see repeated was given this week for the 50th time. The Metropolitan Opera House shed the dingy warehouse look which it wears through the summers. Lights from the marquees flooded the surrounding sidewalks. Limousines drove up in lines to where flashlight photographers waited to see if the passengers were important enough to "shoot." In another line, earnest men and women drably dressed waited anxiously to get standing place behind the red plush rail inside, to see the faded gold curtains open on the beginning of another winter's opera...
...Virginia C. Jenckes of Terre Haute, Ind. had ten Counties, the new Sixth District, to cover. This she did in an automobile driven by her daughter Virginia, 19. They drove 15.000 mi. Mrs. Jenckes, a widow, is the great-granddaughter of the first judge of the Northwest Territory, belongs to one of Terre Haute's oldest families. She owns and runs a 1,160-acre farm...