Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started practice in South Dakota's Black Hills where he often had to ride 150 mi. in a buggy to reach his patients. Like many a frost-bitten South Dakotan he moved, aged 52, to California. There, after a spell as assistant city health officer in Long Beach, he turned again to private practice. A kindly doctor, he brooded over his experience of human misery, and conceived a Plan...
...Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought his 25� pamphlet. They sent the word back East to the old home-folks...
...last week the flow of money from the pamphlet and contributions was enough to pay the wages of 50 people working in his Long Beach office. There were Townsend Clubs in every State except Delaware?644 clubs in all, 200 in California alone. Between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 people had put their names to petitions begging their Congressmen to vote the Plan into effect at once. It had a scattering support from small editors, syndicated philosophers. Wrote the "Poet Laureate of California": "There seemed to be so much more sense in it than what Spengler, Ortega...
...afternoon a metallic mass swooped in a long arc over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape...
...Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick" Hauptmann. And "Nita" Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that two years later, without his knowledge, his land lord would make a tidy sum peddling his pictures of "Dick...