Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin Roosevelt might have sent to Hyde Park for an absentee ballot this year, alleging that business kept him in Washington. But, ever ready to visit his mother's estate overlooking the Hudson River, he made the election (see p. 14) an occasion to go home for a four-day rest and cast his ballot in person in Hyde Park's town hall...
...Albany, N. Y. five truckloads of "hunger marchers" trying to enter the city over the Hudson River bridge got into an altercation with police, were thoroughly beaten...
...along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001 was hailed by Press & public for the fastest...
...away at Hopewell, N. J. not later than 8:30 p. m. But when other evidence tended to show that Hauptmann did not start work there until March 21, the court refused to stay the extradition longer and four carloads of New Jersey troopers swept Bruno Hauptmann over the Hudson and down to Flemington for the trial of his life...
...freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio west of the Hudson River...