Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week to become a Republican nominee actively seeking reelection. In Washington with Mrs. Hoover and his usual retinue he boarded a Pennsylvania R. R. special train, all spick & span with new paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched up his first full-length stump speech which was to open his campaign at Des Moines...
...Roosevelt tour was made up largely of bold bids for insurgent Republican support of the Democratic ticket. At Lamy, N. Mex. in the station crowd. Governor Roosevelt spotted Republican Senator Bronson Cutting whom he had known "since he wore short pants." The Governor invited the Senator up to the rear platform of his private car. Senator Cutting clambered aboard, shook Governor Roosevelt's hand, waved to the crowd, said nothing. Three days prior Senator Cutting had lost control of the G. O. P. State organization to Albert Gallatin Simms, new husband of Mark Hanna's daughter Ruth McCormick...
...land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members, called the Admiral's resignation "a publicity stunt." Admiral Sims retorted that...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...
...from Nancy. Thus, evacuation of Nancy and Verdun. "General de Castelnau disobeys orders, resists on the Grand Couronne, saves Nancy. General Sarrail gives battle before Verdun despite orders to retreat. He saves Verdun. I take the offensive [with taxicabsj before Paris while General Headquarters are removed far to the rear at Chatillon. These were actions independent of the will of the commander-in-chief, carried out by commanders of the army corps, but premeditated by General Headquarters-never!" Though