Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, bronzed and beaming after cruising on the U. S. S. Houston, landed at Portland, Ore. On his way back to Washington two days were spent crossing the northern part of 1934's Great Drought. Those days were memorable. His progress was like a triumphal procession. Uninvited thousands drove miles across the blistered plains to hear him speak. And, like a miracle, within a few hours of his passing through those dull, dun, desiccated lands, showers followed, then drenching rains (TIME...
...clock next morning President Roosevelt detrained at Waterbury, Vt., to be received by Vermont's Governor Charles M. Smith, Senators Varren R. Austin and Ernest W. Gibson, Republicans all. To such political foreigners the President did not find it necessary to show his diplomatic side. He drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys were working...
Right is onetime Reporter Cole's recollection. On Jan. 11, 1927 an Italian named Jose Mario Barone left Rio de Janeiro with a companion in a 1922 Studebaker touring car which had already gone 124,000 miles, drove to Buenos Aires, hacked his way north through the Bolivian jungle, crossed the Isthmus, reached New York City March 1. 1929. The 20,000-mile trip was largely financed by giving exhibition "Leaps of Death" in the car. Barone's first companion was killed in a race soon after their start. His second, picked up en route, died of jungle...
...after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home in high spirits. Four hundred Hyde Park Democrats, members of the 7-year-old Roosevelt Home Club, were waiting on neighbor Moses Smith's lawn when President and Mrs. Roosevelt drove up to greet them. Chatting easily from the back seat of his car, the President told his neighbors about the Triborough Bridge, about the drought, about the growth of local interest in government which he thought was "the greatest gain in the Depression and the three years of revival which...
...week. They wanted to see the throwing of rice and shoes, the shouting of good wishes at newlyweds who could afford a honeymoon in a private car. The train arrived, waited. The sun neared setting. The air cooled. At a few minutes before 8 o'clock an ambulance drove up to the rear platform of the private car. Gawpers saw a heavy-set old man on a stretcher whisked out of the ambulance, into the car. A younger man, obviously a doctor, got aboard. The train chuffed off toward Boston...