Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along the route, but fearing that white men would die off under the hot summer sun, decided to try Negroes. Isaiah T. Montgomery, a onetime slave of Jefferson Davis, and his cousin Benjamin T. Green were induced to start a colony. Thus was founded the town of Mound Bayou. Last week every day was carnival in Mound Bayou...
Presuming that a man spells his own name correctly on his stationery, it may interest you to know that on the die-stamped letterhead of Mr. P. S. duPont the name appears in all capitals, with the "du" slightly smaller just as TIME used it on the June 28 cover...
...members of the California Townsend Club, Founder Francis Everett Townsend wailed: "I was offered $200 a month bribe for the rest of my life to lay off the Townsend Plan. But I'm going to keep on fighting . . . until I die...
...YOUR GUARD-Carl Warren, Dailv Jews reporter-Emerson Books (Manhattan) < $1.00). get the bills ironed out and to testify that, if Congress earmarked $1,000,000 or more every year for cancer research, he could save the lives of 20,000 of the 140,000 people who die of cancer in the U. S. each year...
...declared war April 6, 1917 and as the rumbling of the guns rolled across the Atlantic, marriage records began to tumble nationwide as U. S. males jumped to escape the draft or to marry their best girls before going out to die. Chicago's municipal marriage license bureau set an all-time high on April 9, 1917, issuing 1,124 licenses. Last week saw that Wartime record tremble on Monday when 1,119 licenses were issued, tumble on Tuesday with 1,153, be trampled underfoot on Wednesday by a mob of 1,407 engaged couples who kept the overworked...