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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project not only in his home state but in the whole East. Said he in a skillful, unpretentious little speech...
Office. Hitherto Japan and Germany have been so deep in diplomatic cahoots that Russia has openly been arming to resist an East and West "pinching of Communism" between the armed forces of Germany and Japan. Last week, however, the Japanese War Office liked its story of an economic pact by Germany and China behind Japan's back so much that at once in Peiping "reprisals" were taken by Japan's swashbucklers...
...would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
...East and South are lined up solidly behind us and a great portion of the Middle West as well." So spoke last week neither Republicans nor Democrats but the campaign managers of School Superintendent William Henry Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. Y., candidate for the presidency of potent National Education Association. To choose a new president, to spend five days in exciting talk about their profession, 15,000 U. S. teachers and school officials journeyed to Portland, Ore., for NEA's 74th annual convention...
Polygamy-or, as the Mormons delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four...