Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Johnston is South Carolina newer-style-a husky Sergeant of Engineers who went through college after the War, drove to the top in politics with energy that sometimes gets him in trouble. Candidate Brown, quiet, efficient, lawyerlike, would not let voters forget the time "Machine Gun" Johnston called out the militia to drive able Chief Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer out of office, only to have the State Supreme Court uphold Mr. Sawyer. Both Candidates Johnston and Brown proudly recall that they worked in cotton mills as boys - a good political start in a State where textile workers vote...
...Postmaster Harry A. Coy, 35. of Havre de Grace, hometown of Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...
...movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official nudist organization, held its second annual Pacific Coast convention at Estacada, Ore. Accomplishments: election of officers (who modestly withheld their names), formation of the Western Sunbathing Conference, reaffirmation of nudists' high ideals...
...Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi went Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God), where she received the key to the city. Formalities over, Mayor Rossi told Miss Lawrence his next date was at the Examiner's Hole-in-One Tournament, asked her to go along. Off they drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat...
Their first months were a struggle to build a dining room and studio, whose modernistic design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...