Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oppose Speaker Nicholas Longworth, renominated, in the Cincinnati district, Democrats selected John Williams Pattison, son of a onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress...
...similar boycott has started in New Orleans. At Harrison, Ark., last week, unemployed whites drove Negro laborers from their work, pre-empted the vacated jobs...
...harm lung tissue. He would not, they said, let anyone use an inhalator on one of their drowning patients. A pulmotor pumps oxygen into the lungs too quickly, in their opinion. As the life guards and doctor argued long and loud, police arrived with another inhalator. The police drove the life guards away, applied their inhalator. The victim, Hyman Getzkin, by that time was dead...
...little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive into a clump of trees on the home hole. These were his only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played in a U. S. Open. He did it with his mashie niblick, playing doubtful carries short...
Pepper, a collie of Randalia, Iowa, who found 21 cows stranded on an island over which flood waters were rising, drove them into the stream, made them swim to safety...