Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
Only bird sanctuary was a bird shop in the RCA Building's cellar. As he drove the silver rivet, Mr. Rockefeller beamed...
Large-scale new Soviet aid to China was reported to be pouring into China's most important area, Szechwan, through her northwesternmost area, Sinkiang. Nightly, said these dispatches, 300 trucks were arriving in Chengtu, Szechwan, loaded with arms and ammunition. Then they drove back to Sinkiang with silver bullion, silk, wood, oil, hides. Personnel of the Soviet trading agency in Chungking (China's capital, also in Szechwan) was said to have been increased to more than 300, and Soviet military advisers, aviators, and officers to more than...
More than that he did not have to say. Hedda Hopper shook his hand understandingly, hopped in her car, drove straight to the office of the Los Angeles Times. There she wrote a new lead, quoting James Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...