Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simon Ross, Assistant U, S. District Attorney in Cincinnati, did not wish to make a ruling on the subject and so referred it to Mr. Sargent, even though there is in Section 10,348 of the revised statutes of the U. S. the following law which makes it a crime to "make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a sum less than $1 intended to circulate as money or to be received in lieu of lawful money of the United States...
Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
...forest fire in the Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids. These points...
...meet Governor Ralph Brewster of Maine and taken him by airplane to Hartford for the second New England Conference last week. These conferences were organized a year ago to seek some sort of co-operation between the strongly individualistic communities and industries of New England. Long ago this district yielded its literary and cultural prestige to Manhattan. But industrially, especially in shoes, textiles and knit goods, it held its predominance until shortly after the War. Since then it has not progressed as have other sections of the country. It has even retrogressed in some instances. Chairman Owen D. Young...
Throughout Western Java in the Netherlandic Indies concerted Communist revolts broke out last week, seemingly indicating that the Indonesian Communist Party is much stronger than Netherlanders had thought. In Batavia, a mob made wild a sultry night with shootings and torch-flamings. In lesser towns, murders of district-chiefs were reported...