Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Landon drove down to the Rock Island yards for a steak dinner with the other Governors in the Presidential private car. This time he sat on the President's left and the conversation, according to Governor Herring, ranged over "everything from Spain to the Drought...
...admitted that they usually drove at 60 m. p. h. Four confessed to 55, seven to 50, two to between 50 and 60. Of the rest, most traveled regularly at 45 or faster. Only one drove at 35. The average for the whole group was 49 m. p. h., which is 5 m. p. h. faster than the average legal state limit. Explained Safe-Driver Emmett M. Williams of Georgia, who has driven 1,000,000 miles in 28 years without accident: "I drive pretty fast. At times I've hit 90 m. p. h. I think you ought...
...usual King Vittorio Emanuele lived in his "World's Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
...flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor of Nebraska, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, brother of the late Great Commoner, spied a couple hugging each other as they drove down a Lincoln street, followed them into a beer tavern. At the Mayor's complaint, the bartender refused to serve beer to the couple. Into another tavern they marched...
...took out my first permit in any State. That was in the spring of 1935 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Because I was under 1 8 it was necessary for my father to sign my application with me. While he went into the bureau office with me my mother drove our car around the block once, because she was unable to park. When she drove up in front of the office again, my father and I were wait ing for her and I was a full-fledged Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes...