Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate staff was with him. So anxious was the President to avoid being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...
Deposits & Loans. To help industry, the Bank of England began fostering low interest rates. This drove money out of England. Foreign deposits began to be reduced. Domestic capital went out in loans to Germany, to South America, to the Dominions. Some $600,000,000 was loaned to Germany. In June, when Germany could not pay, Britain was forced to dig deep into her reserves...
...With Christian rites St. Vitus, a child, drove demons from a son of the pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305). Nonetheless, Diocletian had St. Vitus tossed into a kettle of boiling oil because he would not recant his Christianity. St. Vitus miraculously escaped from the oil, but died soon after from that and other tortures...
...Horowitz, chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., builders. The present board of directors includes nine men who can be identified with Thompson-Starrett. Among them is Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co., one of the firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience. He was in charge of the McAlpin (Manhattan) when the late General Coleman du Pont asked...
...invested in two producing wells. Out of this venture grew Humble Oil Co. control of which was sold in 1919 to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey for $16,580,000. It was to save the price of oil that Governor Sterling last month called a special legislative session, drove through a new proration act, closed the gushing East Texas field by martial law, drove up the price of oil from 10¢ to 68¢ the barrel (TIME, Aug. 24). Cotton planters openly wondered why he would not take the whip hand and do as much for them. Their only explanation...