Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...
...interim it had pleased the fancy of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to spend some $12,000,000 on converting the town into a bright, inhabited museum. Down newly-restored Duke of Gloucester Street President Roosevelt rode to the campus of the College of William & Mary, second oldest (1693) in the U. S.* On the stoop of its restored main building, designed by Sir Christopher Wrenn and Completed in 1697, the President sat in cap & gown while Publisher John Stewart Bryan of Richmond took oath as the college's 19th president...
Miami, Fla., Oct. 24--A resolution demanding immediate payment of the soldiers' bonus rode swiftly today through the American Legion's powerful legislative committee...
...through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated and Kerensky took over, Mannerheim went home to Finland in disgust, just in time to pull together a White Army and beat off the Bolsheviks. In May 1918, he rode into Helsingfors at the head of his victorious troops. Inevitably he was made Regent of the new Government, for then Finland had an idea it would turn to a monarchy. When it switched to a republic, he quit. When King Gustaf forced Finland to destroy the Aland forts, General Mannerheim...
...anecdote bears witness to Lee's quiet good manners, his inability to bluster. Riding over the field of the second battle of Manassas he came upon a marauding Mississippian asked him why he was not with his command. Roundly cursed as "a cowardly Virginia cavalryman," Lee laughed, rode away "subdued." As he watched the critical charge at Chancellorsville he sat calmly