Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith went right on campaigning. On the night of South Carolina's primary day last week, a contingent of his friends motored to Columbia from Orangeburg, 35 miles away. They wore flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech to the midnight...
Prize exhibit of the display, however, was a live Soviet tank driver who drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain...
When Ed Collins came out of church his two pals were waiting for him. They took him to a lumber yard, made him steal two stout boards. Then they drove him to the edge of town, to a lonely spot near the County Hospital...
Spawn of the North (Paramount), a sprawling $1,100,000 Western of the North, describes how Henry Fonda, as law & order, drove Akim Tamiroff, as Russian piracy, out of the Alaskan salmon runs in the early 1900s. Whenever Akim Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else's fish trap, they were lynched. When Akim Tamiroff's insults became too much for a man to bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate...
Keel of the Dollar Line was laid some 40 years ago by dour old Captain Robert Dollar who needed ships for his lumber business in the newly opened Pacific Northwest. A goat-bearded gaffer with a self-made man's canniness and mistrust of others, he drove many a skinflint bargain. In 1928, at 84, he wangled a Government ocean mail subsidy calculated to pay him about $3,000,000 annually. For some $9,000,000 he had already purchased on time from the U. S. Shipping Board twelve vessels then valued at almost...