Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifteen motor cars sped out of Washington and across the green acres of Maryland striped with the long shadows of a late afternoon sun. Franklin D. Roosevelt was going down to the sea. Going down with him were his wife, his four sons, newshawks, secret service men, many an official friend. Notably absent was his gruff, wrinkle-faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked...
Always at bottom the soldier, Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy...
...decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared. Said Guillermo Giraldez, Spanish President of the League Commission, as he took off: "An historic occasion! A festival of Peace...
...things to consider. It's easy to start out-but rather hard to carry through." Mrs. Dall detrained at Truckee, Calif. Thence she, her children, a Negro maid, three watchful Secret Service men, and Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented for her six-week residence in Nevada. Said Attorney Platt: "I will not say whether she will charge desertion...
...Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause...