Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt laid his plans for the Republican National Convention. Whether Congress adjourns for good or merely recesses over the convention, the President announced that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be in Little Rock, making a speech on behalf of Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who is up for reelection. Next Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas...
...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
...white Rolls-Royce, exuding posters, drove up before Strangeways Jail last week, somebody heaved a rock through one of the windows. Attempting to speak, Violet Van der Elst was booed down. "How would you like your daughter to be cut in little pieces?" shrilled an inquisitive voice. Sweet Violet again tried to speak. "Aw, get out!" roared the crowd. Police hustled her away, charged her with "driving through a crowd in a manner likely to endanger life and limb." She was held in $250 bail. Meantime, inside the jail the black flag was run up and the lifeless body...
...Chicago, Keeshin set about filing joint tariff schedules with six railroads as the result of an alliance agreed upon fortnight ago for truck-rail freight service, such as Keeshin started with the Rock Island line in 1934. About June 8, the railroads will begin picking up loaded Keeshin trailers on flat cars, carrying them by rail to their destination, where Keeshin tractors will make final delivery. The six: Baltimore & Ohio; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Alton; Rock Island; Chicago Great Western...