Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homecoming his friends and managers did not leave his fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression ballyhoo. In a noisy motorcade, gawked at by many a bystander, surrounded by sombreroed U. S. cowmen, preceded by a brass band, he rode to City Hall where Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York declared : "The city is very proud of you!" Into talking-cinema microphones Hero Franklin spoke English: "Give me the good old American girl," and Spanish: "Commend me to the charming senoritas of Spain." Of the Spanish King he said...
...Gloucester harbor toward the triangular 36-mi. course swung the two big fishing schooners. Thebaud was ballasted down by the head and rolled like a destroyer. High rode the Bluenose, her forefoot lifting out until it showed her red underbody...
...clock next morning he demanded newspapers, found he could not get them there. He was in black bear country. When the train reached Alliance, Ohio, Republican Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch, up for election, boarded it, rode along with the President where everybody could see him. At Bedford the train stopped again to take on Mrs. Hoover, fresh from a Girl Scout convention at Indianapolis (see col. 3). President Hoover took her in his arms, greeted her with a kiss on the rear platform...
...subway without paying. In court the ride-stealer, William Cummings of Norfolk, Va., said: "I'm secretary of the Norfolk Railway Co. and I wanted to see whether it would be easy to avoid paying a fare on the New York subway line." He was fined $3, rode off in a taxicab...
...pilot of National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...