Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, David W. Mulvane, late boss of Kansas. In 1924 Hamilton,' with Mulvane's backing, was elected to the Kansas Legislature, served until 1928, finished as its Speaker. Far from a flaming beacon of liberalism was the Mulvane machine. In the Kansas House, Hamilton helped defeat the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution...
...Reformer Sherwood Eddy, established as a colony last spring. On it, already farming 400 acres of cotton, are 24 "cropper"' families. Free to organize if they choose, they will receive "model contracts" for "furnish" at 5% interest per annum, will draw up their own self-government regulations, child labor laws. First half of the net return on the crop will go toward retiring the capital investment. The other half will be apportioned to the workers on the quality and quantity of their labor. Ardently Founder Eddy sums up his venture: ". . . The whole movement is a nonviolent, Christian, co-operative...
...piano pupils who entered the annual tournament conducted in Manhattan by the National Guild of Piano Teachers, youngest this spring was Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, a Negro child who blithely played ten compositions, six of them her own. Reward for superior playing is a gold seal certificate, a place on the Guild's national roll of honor. Seven of the contestants were so rated last week and among them 4-year-old Philippa Schuyler...
...left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind. I can't say I'm sorry...
...honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...