Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked...
Beaming, bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan rode back to Washington from the tall corn country last week, basking in pleasant visions of the future. For two days an all-star cast of Democratic brass had hobnobbed in Des Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session...
From the moment he rode into Little Rock and joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry's hell-raising Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F...
They threatened to return and bomb Mrs. McDanal's neat white house, or burn it down, "if we hear anything else." Then the neighbors piled into their 16 cars, having no more advice to dispense that night, and rode home to their beds...
Fall & Rise. By 1930 the Bank of Italy caught up with its prestige and size: it became the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n. A.P. retired again. But soon he disagreed with the way his interests were being run, and rode back into power on a wave of proxies...