Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobholders who rode into the national limelight on the coattails of the New Deal, few have shone more wonderfully than baldish, hairy-handed, big-talking Major George L. Berry. Since 1933 he has been a member o. the NRA's Labor Advisory Board of Cotton Textile and the NRA's Mediation Board for Steel & Coal, divisional NRA administrator, custodian of the NRA's bones after its demise, Co- ordinator for Industrial Cooperation, chairman of John L. Lewis' pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League, and finally junior U. S. Senator from Tennessee. Last week...
...more spine-tingling incident closed the day. After the bombing, Japanese patrols occupied 30 square blocks in Shanghai in the district where it occurred. The maneuver blocked traffic in the International Settlement and a U. S. Marine courier ignored a pistol leveled at him as he rode his motorcycle through the Japanese lines. When U.S. Marine commander, General Beaumont, learned that these Japanese patrols overlapped three blocks into the section of Shanghai under U. S. guard, he sent Colonel Charles F. B. Price to visit the Japanese commander and tell him to get his men out. The Marine officers...
...hypothetical Bill Smith last week arrived in the hypothetical town of Zenith on a business trip. He marched through its marble-lined railroad station, climbed into a shiny taxicab, rode up Zenith's Main Street, admiring a handsome museum, four handsome churches, a dozen glittering drug stores. After he had dined on excellent roast beef in his hotel, Bill Smith lit a cigar and strolled out to a cinema, making up his mind on the way that he would tell his wife Zenith was a "great town...
Whereas the Dalai Lama had been under British influence, the Panchen Lama cast his lot with China. He entertained and lived well, rode around in a bright yellow motorcar and bright yellow railroad train, and so great became his influence that the Nationalist Government thought it worthwhile to pay him $480,000 a year, give him the title of "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture," in an attempt to save Manchuria and North China from Japanese influence...
...year-old Joan Dixon of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Dixon, mounted on Colonel Vadim Makaroff's old chestnut mare, Melody Girl, jumped in the touch-and-out sweepstake, competing with nearly 50 professional horsemen, experienced cavalry officers and expert amateurs. Miss Dixon leaped faultlessly over the difficult course, blithely rode off with the championship...