Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt, who rode fast & free in Massachusetts, was opposed in Pennsylvania by Colonel Henry Breckinridge of Manhattan, Lindbergh lawyer and onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, who has offered himself as a rallying post for anti-New Deal Democrats. Preliminary result: Roosevelt, 800,000; Breckinridge...
...dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard to Government House at Malabar Point...
...promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars. Last week in an elaborate limited edition he published his own version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew...
...Insurance Co. is the equally important Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co., known throughout Central Europe as "Phönix-Wien." Founded in 1882, it established branches throughout the empire, grew prosperous. The break-up of the old Austrian empire did not seem to affect it. Phönix-Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...
...expose Landon to possible defeat by Borah, who had the support of many a follower of Senator Hiram Johnson, would cause Landon to be labeled the Hearst candidate-a label that Governor Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive Publisher Hearst to support a rival candidate. Statesmanlike "Alf" Landon last week solved the problem by doing precisely nothing...