Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly declared that President Hoover had turned him down because he was a Wet Catholic. Between Colonel Donovan and the President there is still a breach...
...President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from the Marine Corps corral, rode it at a walk up & down the mountain trails while shutters clucked, cranks whirled...
...found it was already full of Koreans." Crafty Chang Tso-lin accepted enormous "loans" from Japan, then used this money to spread anti-Japanese propaganda and to build railways competing with Japanese lines already in existence. In 1928 Japan finally saw through the Old Tiger. One June day he rode back to Mukden from Peking on his private train. There is a point on the outskirts of Mukden where the tracks of Chang's Peking-Mukden line pass under a bridge of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway. Workmen were seen working on the under side of that bridge...
General MacArthur directed the military operation, tears streaming down his cheeks, not from emotion but from the fumes of the bombs. When his cavalry rode down a group of veterans with a U. S. flag, a spectator sang out: "The American flag means nothing to me after this." General MacArthur snapped: "Put that man under arrest if he opens his mouth again...
...week flocked to Ulmer Park, a big bare, boarded plot near Brooklyn's Coney Island, for an all-day political outing to start their party's national campaign. Working families brought boxes of coarse sandwiches, pickles and fruit. Hot dog stands did a sizzling business. Youngsters played on swings, rode the merry-go-round. Their parents lolled on newspapers listening to band music or strolled off to watch a soccer game. Trade groups sang songs. Broadway performers gave a free show...