Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening in Plattsmouth, Neb., Sheriff Homer Sylvester received word to look out for the fugitives who might be heading toward Omaha. Sheriff Sylvester and his brother Cass grabbed their rifles and drove a few miles south of Plattsmouth to a filling station. Waiting there they soon saw a car racing along at 60 m. p. h. They let it pass and followed it. Soon the bandits slowed down, began to drive a weaving course pretending they were drunken drivers to tempt their pursuers alongside. The Sylvesters refused to be tempted, finally cornered their men at the dead...
...sitdown strike." When the driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain Hall...
...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
Forty European and U. S. travelers on a world cruise stepped off the S. S. Reliance at Tientsin last week, entrained for Peiping to visit its famed Temple of Heaven. As they drove up to its mellow walls they saw thousands of Chinese crowded before the Temple gabbling excitedly. Soon a knot of Chinese soldiers appeared, piled up packages of drugs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, set them blazing while the Chinese crowd laughed and cheered and hawkers did roaring business with peanuts and watermelon seeds...
...joked gaily at the prospect of seeing a public execution of Chinese drug peddlers, had had to be restrained by police from taking photographs because "China must not be ashamed." But the six executions turned many a tourist pale & sick. With drawn faces they climbed into their cars, drove...