Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
Back to Moscow went Fluff's mistress, obtained a certificate from the State to export Fluff's fur, sped on to Germany where Nazi frontier guards charged $19 as a visa fee for admitting Fluff...
...Fall River, Mass. repairs diaphragmatic hernia with such skill that the American Medical Association gave him a gold medal for his operative technique. Last month the Press made a great sentimental to-do about one Alyce Jane McHenry, 10, of Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise, put Patient McHenry on the table, opened her up, pushed her intestines and stomach into her abdomen, darned the diaphragmatic partition shut, closed her body, called...
...Paris, the Austrian's special train stopped at a tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...
...impeccably pedigreed creature, it cost Breeder Prentice $10,000 and turned out to be sterile. That was probably the first come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn of the Century, he moved to Manhattan and married Alta Rockefeller whose...