Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles' weather, as well as its citizens, had given Alf Landon a chilly greeting, and, as the Sunflower Special sped eastward, the Nominee was nursing a cold and sore throat. But at Tucumcari, N. Mex., stung to fighting pitch by his Los Angeles booing and by recent Roosevelt speeches, disputing virtually every one of the President's tax points. Alf Landon struck harder and straighter at Franklin Roosevelt than ever before, accused him of "misrepresenting" the facts, went on to assert: "He is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re-election...
...government. . . . You have gotten away from the city machines which are one of the very great dangers to city government in this country." Few minutes later Nominee Landon arrived at the Hotel Gibson where 1,200 Republican regulars were gathered to breakfast in his honor. Up to Charlie Taft sped his law partner, Representative John B. Hollister, to whisper that the breakfasters were "furious," that Alf Landon would have to say something to square himself with them. Said the Nominee in his ensuing speech: "I pay tribute to your non-partisan city form of government, its freedom from machine politics...
...officeworkers in Manhattan first glimpsed the Hindenburg's silvery nose. A tail wind sped her on to New Jersey. On a Newark roof a garage mechanic stepped backward to get a better view, crashed through a skylight to his death. The big ship floated over Philadelphia, returned to Lakehurst...
Released after 26 hours, Nominee Browder prepared to sue Terre Haute officials for false arrest and false imprisonment, sped back to Manhattan for a rousing welcome and a nationally-broadcast speech...
...last week 800 pupils milled excitedly, shouting at 200 who were pressed anxiously against the windows inside. Those outside were "on strike" because School Superintendent Andrew S. Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down the street...