Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics. He served ten years as Bowling Green prosecuting attorney, two terms as Warren County judge. With his brother, he has long published the Bowling Green Times-Journal. He organized a company in the Spanish-American War, served as major in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, went to France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General...
...that church, some 75 mi. north of the U. S. border, one day last week 1,000 friendly, happy people crowded to see Lydia Gruchy in a white dress and academic gown standing alone opposite seven male United Churchmen. She advanced to the altar, knelt while President John L. Nichol of the Saskatchewan Conference laid his hands upon her head and said: "Take thou authority to preach the Word of God and to minister the sacraments." The other churchmen laid on their hands, questioned Miss Gruchy, handed her a parchment signifying that she was now a minister...
...every man & woman in the U. S. In the novel, Jessup's daughter avenges her husband's murder by crashing her sport plane into Effingham Swan's transport plane. When the play's last curtain falls she is in a Corpo office on the Canadian border, leveling a pistol at Swan...
Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas...
...Holy Rollers gathered two Sundays ago in Virginia near Mulberry Gap on the Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home...