Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giant Negro Singer Paul Robeson drove from France to Barcelona, Spain. Purpose of his visit: to go to the front lines, where a huge loudspeaker will throw his voice, during a lull in fighting, to Leftist and Rightist alike...
...Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining property option...
...slump he charged primarily to the payment of the soldiers' bonus in 1936, which accentuated inflationary sentiment that got out of bounds in the spring of 1937, drove prices and inventories too> high. As contributory factors he mentioned strikes, increased operating costs of railroads, lack of expansion by utilities and, finally, the attempt of the Govern-ment to reduce its contribution to consumer spending power. Said he: "Monopolistically controlled prices and wages which are now too high must be lowered and prices and wages which are too low, in relation to consumer purchasing power, must be raised...
...Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed her thereafter on the preaching tours she makes in the Midwest, since she has no permanent pastorate. Ignoring her advice, Salesman Langkop last week plighted his troth to the Terror of the Tabernacles in Manhattan's famed Episcopal Little Church Around the Corner...
When he overreached himself and went bankrupt, he headed for Manhattan, made a quick fortune in cigarets. Boredom drove him into the munitions business. In Paris, Ulysses created the armament cartel which did the main work in preparing both sides for the World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...