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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happy Returns | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Windsor, whose family name at his birth was Saxe-Coburg mid Gotha, spoke German like a native with Dr. Ley who promptly drove Germany's guests to the Kaiserhof Hotel, generally considered Berlin's No. i Nazi rendezvous. There Dr. Ley presented a huge box of chocolates with card addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor"-although the Duchess has not yet been raised by His Britannic Majesty to the rank of Royal Highness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hett Windsor! | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...credit for a single. Then Carl Hubbell and Joe Moore singled to bring in McCarthy and Whitehead. By this time Pitcher Hadley was replaced by Ivy Paul Andrews. But the Giants continued through their batting order. Coming up for the second time with the bases full, Leiber again singled, drove in two more runs, and the Giants ended the inning with a total of six. For the rest of the afternoon Hubbell pitched a practically flawless game, kept the Yankees' potent batters down to two runs, and brought the Giants their first victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yankees Again | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Outer Drive | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur had put on a sudden burst of speed, was heading straight for the Leftist lines. A quick revolver shot in the back killed the chauffeur, ended the attempt. The party drove back to headquarters quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1,000 Miles | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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