Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The dark-walled, courtlike hearing room on the eleventh floor of the Interstate Commerce Commission building in Washington normally seats 200 spectators. Last week, however, 500 rail executives, lawyers, traffic experts, clerks, shippers, statisticians and newshawks jostled and crowded their way into this chamber to witness the opening of the...
Last week the City Council also voted over Mayor Murphy's veto to close down the last of the municipal "flop houses" for single men. Eight hundred jobless, ousted from their quarters, marched to City Hall, crowded the galleries while their leaders pleaded for continuance of relief. Those who...
Chillicothe. Serious fault Dr. Van Waters found with the Federal Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, where housing conditions were reported "in poor repair, crowded, unsanitary and not fire proof." Children were thrown into the guard house for "possessing a 2? stamp . . . talking in mess line . . . concealing an apple in bunk...
Nonetheless, since a big fight is always a social event of sorts, trains, planes, and autos were crowded going into Cleveland last week. A yacht brought Wisconsin's dapper young Senator La Follette; a plane brought Edsel Ford; trains brought Chicago's Mayor Cermak, onetime Heavyweight Champions James...
After the French note had been delivered to Washington, President Hoover decided U. S. Diplomacy at Paris needed some added prestige. Therefore he flashed an order to his cautious and charming old Secretary of the Treasury. When Secretary Mellon had crossed the channel and arrived at the Gare du Nord...