Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China, the national economy of the country was roughly shaken when the U. S. Treasury drove up the price of silver (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934) and for months the Chinese people acutely suffered from the deflation this produced in their country. Nevertheless last week the very Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public...
...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...
Died. Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, 35, son of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn.'s famed Mayo Brothers (other: Dr. William James); when, to get from one highway to another, he drove his automobile down the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks and was crushed by a Chicago-bound train; in Alma...
...motor cars and the London Sunday Pictorial surpassed itself when it got the 6th Earl of Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...
...prejudices, his temper, his complaints that she had ruined his career. Only her deep friendship for a dour Scottish spinster, whose plays became successful, saved her, and when they quarreled over votes-for-women Janet was completely broken. She tried to set fire to her husband's church, drove him out of his mind, worked in a settlement house until her early death...