Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years the mayors have pictured their cities as poor relations, dependent on the U. S. Treasury, communities already at or near their legal debt limits and unable to cope alone with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex., home of cows, dust storms and helium. Said Representative Ludlow, Indiana Democrat: "I have been in your city on several occasions, Mr. Mayor, and it strikes me that there wouldn't have been any serious trouble if there had been...
...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...
...hours later, the new black Buick sedan of Edward Schneider was found parked in the middle of Fairfax Bridge across the Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...
...Wife who were "happily married for many years. Their one trouble was that they had no babies of their own." The care they take in selecting a baby and the care the orphanage takes in checking on the foster parents-even peeking under their beds for dust (see cut)-are all described so as to reassure the children that being adopted is a highly respectable thing. This week Dr. Wasson published her book, The Chosen Baby.* Its intended market: the 16,000 U. S. families who adopt children every year...
Lying on Mayor Lyons' desk in the Cambridge City Hall there is a bill which, if signed by him, would provide decent housing for six hundred Cambridge families. The bill has been gathering dust on the desk since February when it was passed by the City Council, and today there is a very definite danger that the United States Housing Authority may withdraw the $4,5000,000 grant which will make these new homes possible unless the bill is signed immediately...