Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair Harvard...
Watching the Kingston parade, an American Legionary named Harry Whitney stiffened in patriotic anger when he beheld the announcement, "Peace, Father Divine Is God" stitched on a U. S. flag. He summoned police, who stopped the bearer, a white woman called Fair Angel, directed her to take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply...
Florida has more than its fair share of aged, penurious Yankees, of shiftless, malarial "Crackers." Hence of all States in the Union Florida is one of the most rabidly Townsendite. In its regular Democratic primary this year to select five Representatives, three of them turned out to be Townsendites. Nominated without opposition for the seat of the late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was young, aggressive Claude Pepper, charter member of Townsend Club No. 1 of Tallahassee...
...aside the term ''horse doctor" as an obsolete vulgarism, heard scores of papers on such subjects as "The Pathogenesis of Ketosis" and "Infectious Enterohepatitis" gravely pondered the growing breach between sturdy practitioners on farm animals and city doctors who cosset socialites' pets. At the Ohio State Fair grounds there were expert demonstrations of tonsillectomy, caesarian section, amputation of the breast and painless killing of dogs; castration of aged boars; operation for umbilical hernia and rectal prolapse in swine; ovariectomy and dehorning of cattle; artificial insemination of mares...
Later Thomas Joy made a proposal : he would join the Kiwanis Club again if the Kiwanis Club would get up a committee and start subscriptions to move Vulcan from his ignominious post at. the Fair Grounds. John Henry Adams was the first to join. Last May WPA went to the rescue with $44,000 in cash and the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. hastily offered a five-acre plot on top of Red Mountain two-and-a-half miles outside the city...