Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
...quaked miserably. The significance of the Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east of the Rocky Mountains who campaigned openly for old Dr. Francis E. Townsend's plan for $200-a-month pensions for all good citizens over 60 (TIME, Nov. 4 et ante). Hundreds of Congressmen could foresee the ominous days next autumn when they would have to stand for or against the rising tide of Townsendism...
...Warfare in the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.), was renewed when supporters of ousted-President Alphonso Lynn Ivey tried to oust dictator-like Director George S. Kemp. At a special stockholders' meeting they failed to muster a quorum of 365,875 shares of common and both classes of preferred stock. They did have a quorum of the 7% prior preferred, but Vice President Gustavus Ober adjourned the meeting. Still displeased, the Ivey faction held a rump session, debated what to do next. Dictator Kemp held his saddle by a margin of 62,709 shares...
...anything more antisocial than a game of hearts. But sooner or later they will realize that Author Burke's pastoral pack has a dialectic joker in it. A sequel to her first book, A Stone Came Rolling reintroduces Ishma, the hillbilly Judith; her physical but saintly husband Britt, et al. In tone and texture a kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone Came Rolling is a strange mixture of unabashed sentiment and social indignation. When Britt moved down into North Carolina's Piedmont...
Freistater of The Bronx, whom the New York City Board of Education considered too fat for a permanent teaching job in the city schools (TIME, Dec. 9 et ante). Described by her father as "big and strong," Rose three months ago had weighed 182 lb., which was 32 Ib. over the Board's limit for 5 ft. 2 in. teachers. Last week, ready for a hearing before the State Commissioner, she weighed in at 154 lb., fully dressed. "She's down to 150 without her clothes," crowed her attorney...