Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police under Captain S. J. Gnash had been warned and were ready for them, drove them back in consternation with tear-gas pistols loaned for the occasion by the Army Chemical Warfare Service. Soon Washington from the Capitol to the Peace Monument (a quarter-mile) was the scene of seething struggles between Reds and policemen...
Last week Colonel Coopwood's descendants told the following story: Colonel Coopwood bought all the available dromedaries at $31 per head, took them to join his original 14 in Mexico. But when he drove the entire herd back into Texas, they were seized by the U. S. as stolen goods. Colonel Coopwood filed a claim against the Government, vainly pressed it during his lifetime. Last week's news was revival of the claim by Coopwood descendants. After the Government seized the Coopwood camels, they were turned loose in Arizona where they thrived, propagated. In 1870 a Nevada saltminer...
Twenty-five thousand Jewish protestants against the "Passfield Declaration" on Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) introduced themselves by main force last week into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity 20,000). Perspiring police worked furiously to thin out the crush, finally drove a police car gently but firmly across the packed arena, ejecting by this means some 500 standees...
...Mich, last week Virginia Mae Coppins, 19, died after hiccoughing for long and frequent intervals for more than a year. Last June when the American Medical Association met at Detroit, 5,000 physicians filed into Miss Coppins' room to view the phenomenon, could not help her. A man drove from Cleveland by taxicab with a useless "cure." Heart failure caused by the long hiccoughing was the eventual cause of her death...
Chicago citizens were surprised last week to see 2,000 bewildered, chilly box turtles crawling about a vacant lot on Michigan Avenue. Nobody knew where they came from. Humane society officials caught them, locked them in a dog-catcher's wagon, drove them to the Field Museum. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, was glad to get them. He planned to liberate them near Waukegan, Ill., study their habits...