Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the nation learned that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace and a U. S. Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary...
In Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery 30 years ago Don Tomas set up business as a professional valedictorian of the dead. Of his red-eyed clients he asked only the name, nationality and business of the deceased. Then he would step to the head of the newly turned grave and...
Nobody knows how many newsboys there are in the U. S. The International Association of Circulation Managers claims 570,000 under 18 years. The 1930 census showed 21,700 under 16 years. The National Child Labor Committee reckons 100,000 under 16, 50,000 under 14. The totals include not...
One night last week the square, bare, whitewashed auditorium in the basement of a dingy old brownstone building on Manhattan's Astor Place was jampacked with friends, families and seniors of Cooper Union. Watching them from the old-fashioned wooden platform sat the school dignitaries. Abraham Lincoln had stood...
Relief. Plenty of animals were starving, but as yet few people. That would come later. The great summer drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor...