Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Chicago John J. ("Jack") Lynch, part owner of a turf news service, was left on a road in his own automobile and promptly drove to his home at Lake Geneva, Wis. There he denied that an associate had paid $50,000 for his release. Unlike Kidnappee Rosenthal. Kidnappee Lynch said he would do all he could to help capture and convict the seven men who had held up his car with shotguns, tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster...
They almost lost when Gunda the elephant tried to kill his keeper. Another keeper drove Gunda away by driving a pitchfork into the tender hind quarters...
...dwellings of East 133rd Street in the vast, tawdry northern sector of New York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this alley one afternoon last week drove the factory manager with a $4,619 payroll, guarded by a policeman. Two youths stepped up to the car with drawn automatic pistols. One covered the manager, forced him out of the car, took the payroll. The other sent a bullet through the policeman's shield into his heart...
...swollen shut, slumped behind him, a dirty yellow slicker drooping from his shoulders, a shapeless felt hat squashed on his head. Just as he approached the waiting automobile he looked up with bleary eyes and delivered himself of one complete, soul-satisfying expletive. "Carrrajo!" swore Colonel Mendieta and drove off to jail...
...Jersey's Governor Morgan Foster Larson did manual labor when he journeyed to Kearny, drove the first rivet in a new Grace Line ship. This was the second step in an ambitious building program of this prosperous, family-owned company. Four ships will be built, $17,000,000 spent, employment given...