Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Saar Valley ruled by President Geoffrey Knox of the League of Nations Governing Commission (TIME, Aug. 27). Next January Saar-lander will vote in a three-way plebiscite: to 1) rejoin Germany, 2) remain under League rule or 3) join France. As the 150,000 Saar Bummlers rode off to Coblenz last week 60,000 other Saarlander mass-met at Sulzbach in the Saar. "Don't vote to rejoin Germany " they were told by Socialist, Catholic and Communist orators. "Hitler means war, misery and terror...
...happily on the head. When he went to bat himself, two men were on base. His hit scored the winning run. By the time Detroit took the field the score was Detroit 4, Washington 2. Rowe struck out the last two batters, threw his glove in the air, rode off on the shoulders of the crowd...
...train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never be harvested, drove over roads silted with the drifting topsoil of neighboring farms, passed signs which read, "You gave us beer. Now give us water." And, on -the speakers' stand at Devils Lake, leaning forward...
Nevertheless, when the trumpets brayed and the white-ruffled Alguaciles rode out to catch the keys to the arena in their plumed hats last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never...
Seven crack horsemen from War Commissar Klimentiy E. Voroshilov's Red cavalry rode forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...