Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete republican national and state ticket. Despite the recent poll conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee in which President Roosevelt obtained a majority of 200 votes, this statement issued by such persons as Pound, Beale and Williamson, may swing many votes to the G. O. P. camp, to say nothing of the men who have not yet expressed any preference...
...crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from...
...they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House, the 52-year-old Earl, whose stable...
GEOGRAPHICAL: Your story leaves the impression there were only Hill Billies there, from the Smoky Mountains. That's like saying all aviators are from Kitty Hawk, N. C., for that same year the Church of God did inaugurate its return at Camp Creek, N. C., same year the Wrights first flew at the other end of the State. The Church of God is now firmly established with some 4,000 congregations in 44 States-22 foreign countries...
...that they know the one right way to better it. After 17 years of almost simultaneous growth and fission, the Party now comprises some 51,000 members, being far outstripped in strength of numbers by such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the Camp Fire Girls. Hence the disproportionate amount of public attention which the Party commands can be reasonably interpreted only as a testimonial to the potency of its ideas or its tireless agitation. Enormously flattered were Communists last week to find politicians and patriots throughout the land uniting to catapult them into...