Word: ark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jonesboro, Ark. (pop.: 10,326), home of Senator Hattie Caraway, two years ago it took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered...
...cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...
...cooperate in re-employment." When Alcoa signed NRA's blanket code, wages were boosted to 30? an hour. "We accepted 30? an hour for what we hoped would be a very brief period in order to get the Blue Eagle," explained Mr. Neilson. Asked about Alcoa-owned Bauxite, Ark., Mr. Neilson described it as a "model mining town" with "excellent sanitary conditions," but admitted that the houses had no plumbing...
...Springs, Ark., Mrs. Mary Cronin, 34, sinned, brooded. It was her eyes which had led her to sin and the Bible said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."* When a doctor got to her, Mary Cronin, armed with a safety pin, had dug out her right eye, most of her left...
Last week Charles X. Williams, cashier of the Citizens Bank of Booneville, Ark., was fired. He was fired not by the bank but by State Banking Commissioner Marion Wasson acting under the authority of Arkansas' new law for strengthening its banking system. Cause of Cashier Williams' discharge was negligence: keeping too much cash on hand...