Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...Saloon League, "and ample funds supplied by the breweries and distillers." Exulting in their tenth straight victory, Wet organizations looked with optimism on the outcome of six more ratification votes this month: in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, California, West Virginia. Anti-Repealists began concentrating their campaign in the arid South. They found some satisfaction last week in proclaiming "the greatest Dry victory in Ohio in ten years." Ohio's law provides that no measure passed by the Legislature becomes effective until 90 days have elapsed (unless an emergency clause is attached). If during that period at least...
...least one extra King will be there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, who visited his arid kingdom unescorted last November in search of desert thrills. Many a European Premier not present last week is expected to pay at least one visit. Tickets to view the august assemblage were rarer than rubies last week. The grey & green assembly hall is normally the central court of the Museum. Here...
...Norwich and 2,700 English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...
...anniversary of its admission to the Union. No celebrant, however, was lank Governor Frederick Bennett Balzar, onetime railroad conductor, onetime six-shooting sheriff of Mineral County. He was in Washington, D. C. begging the R. F. C. to lend Nevada $2,000,000. Most of the banks of his arid State were at an impasse. When the loan did not come through, Governor Balzar communicated with his Lieutenant Governor Morley Griswold. As a result of that communication, Nevada's 91,000 citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their 26 banks closed...