Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred his legal residence, as of March 4, 1933, to Washington, D. C. No more was onetime Vice President Curtis a Kansan, and on Nov. 3, 1936, as a resident of the District of Columbia, he cannot even cast a ballot for his favorite candidate...
Into Panic's teeth Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming threw this information: "Infantile paralysis cases reported to the U. S. Public Health Service to date: North Carolina, 558; Virginia, 473; District of Columbia, 37; Massachusetts, 389; New York, 941. The District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina have apparently passed the seasonal peak...
...National Championships, promptly and sympathetically organized an East-West series to keep them busy. How frivolous this series has become was demonstrated by the fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla. Harris lost his match to Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten Leonard Patterson of Los Angeles the day before, but those were the only points East won. Hines thrashed saturnine Manuel Alonso, onetime Spanish Davis Cup star, playing for the East...
...North Carolina-Virginia epidemic of infantile paralysis last week threatened to stir up an epidemic of hysteria. Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, persuaded Governor Earle to persuade Secretary of War Dern to forbid the mobilization of Virginia and District of Columbia National Guardsmen for summer maneuvers in Pennsylvania. Virginia and District of Columbia troops therefore played war in their own backyards...
...Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone. He saw a countryside that had been opened to settlers dry up and drive them out; he worked in the wheat fields and on a Columbia River steamboat, met the six-fingered Indian friend of his boyhood just before the Indian was murdered. Deciding that Luce's father had killed the Indian. Clay set out in search of him, met Luce again, learned that, for reasons he found understandable, she had killed not only...