Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
Chang is an elephant of highly temperamental disposition peculiarly sensitive to external impressions. It seems that Chang strolled from his dwelling into his front yard the other morning and found a janitor a worthy but depressed citizen by the name of Abc Abraham busily engaged in putting a coat of red paint on the fence surrounding the compound. We do not hesitate to describe Mr.Abraham as a worthy citizen because any man who works busily on a work relief job is certainly worthy in a high degree, and the report distinctly says that Mr.Abraham "was busily working...
CARL M. SAUNDERS Managing Editor The Jackson Citizen Patriot Jackson, Mich...
Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger...
...seated close to 0. P. Van Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie, summering in Leland, Mich. Brother Frank...