Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...where he went just before he was nominated in 1924. Mr. Lowden had refused that nomination. Mr. Dawes instantly accepted it. It is improbable that that bit of history will even paraphrase itself this year. Yet it is also historic that the Vice President's relative, William Dawes, rode on the same errand as Paul Revere. He took a different course. He came to fame much later. But measurements show that Dawes outrode Revere by two miles...
Smiling and sitting back in the seat of the boiling car Meyer shook all the hands he could reach. A few days before a friend had lent him money enough to buy his car, an overhauled Miller Special. A year ago he rode a few laps as relief driver for Wilbur Shaw...
Cheek-Neal Co. of Nashville makes Maxwell coffee. Fifty-five years ago Joel O. Cheek and J. Will Neal worked for a wholesale grocer at Nashville. Mr. Cheek's job was to sell coffee to the general stores of Tennessee hill villages. He rode a saddle horse and carried coffee samples in his saddle bags. At that time he affected a pointed beard. When he came home from a trip he would potter around his kitchen oven roasting experimental blends of coffee. He used twelve-pint coffee pots for brewing his blends. His eight sons and one daughter guard...
Three months ago the runners started from Los Angeles. In front of them rode C. C. Pyle in a motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots...