Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin Delano Roosevelt was moving to the White House...
When the Depression broke over the high head of the Republican Administration in 1929, President Hoover called to the White House a swarm of bankers, financiers, businessmen, industrialists, railroaders, labor leaders, farm spokesmen. In the privacy of his study, one by one, he asked them what he should do in the economic emergency. Almost to a man his visitors told him to sit tight, keep smiling, let the tempest blow itself out. For nearly two years he followed their advice...
Oahu Taken. At dawn the Hawaiian attack began. Into the mist, the Saratoga and Lexington launched a swarm of planes. On Oahu the Army, whose great searchlights had fingered the sky all night, was ready. Nine thousand men from Schofield Barracks were deployed in the underbrush. Anti-aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb...
...vote), rice and butter fat, thereby upsetting the "exportable surplus" theory. Efforts to put corn, blackstrap molasses, flaxseed and goats into H. R. 13,991 were beaten. Instead of leaving enforcement to each community the bill turned over the whole job to the Secretary of Agriculture and a swarm of Federal Agents whose duty it would be to watch the doings on each & every one of the 6,300,000 U. S. farms. Bounties would not be apportioned by States and then counties, but would be paid out to every farmer who said he had cut his production 20% below...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that every-one at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep her to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the 2000 men who jammed the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of crysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...