Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd in the lobby set up a cheer when he came down. With the Secretary he rode the few blocks to the White House, past the stand where he might have taken the oath that President Roosevelt would soon be taking. In his oval study the President was putting the final touches on his inaugural address: "I won't be long," said Wendell Willkie. "I know what it is to be interrupted while laboring on a speech." The President and the man he defeated shook hands, and with a laugh Mr. Roosevelt said that he wished Wendell were going...
...World War I, Captain Ma and Captain Gordon had built up their Greene Line Steamers into a fleet of eleven boats in which they rode high on the war's shipping boom. But when depression came Captain Gordon was dead and Ma's two sons, grown to captains themselves, wanted to give up the business. Ma vetoed them. Instead of quitting she bought out the Greene Line's only competitor on the Louisville-Cincinnati run, waited patiently for better shipping weather...
...Ingersoll exaggerates wildly.. But of course they have been severely censored. Yet there is the recent statement of Mr. Mallory Browne of the Christian Science Monitor, who was in London at the time and has since returned to the United States, that on September 8 "1 personally rode around a large part of central London in a car and experienced no difficulty whatever in getting through. I made free use of the telephone without any difficulty, and heard of no one who had any such trouble . . . there was not even a temporary interruption of the water service at that...
...producing something for Defense: powder, trucks, elastic stop nuts, brass & copper, engines, airplanes, cotton cloth, machine tools, worsted, rope. Army lieu tenants (the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. claimed tax concessions on the ground that it was expanding its capacity to train cadets). President Roosevelt sensed and rode the current...
When crater-mouthed Comic Joe E. Brown took a wife 25 years ago, they were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride...