Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours later, President Roosevelt was relaxing as the grey warship sped him on toward Hawaii...
...care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul. Last week Oscar, dozing on the President's roof with one leg tucked under his wing, straightened up with a jerk and a squawk as a roaring Mercedes sped up the long white road and out jumped Adolf Hitler...
...President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier not in the least inconveniencing the King and Queen) and on to the snug East Prussian station of Freystadt where they were met by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg...
Fifteen motor cars sped out of Washington and across the green acres of Maryland striped with the long shadows of a late afternoon sun. Franklin D. Roosevelt was going down to the sea. Going down with him were his wife, his four sons, newshawks, secret service men, many an official friend. Notably absent was his gruff, wrinkle-faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked...
...Schleicher flung herself before her husband to protect him and the Secret Police shot them both "in self defense." Later an eyewitness reported that six men in civilian garb had driven into the von Schleicher driveway, summoned the General and his wife, riddled them with bullets in gangster style, sped away without a word...