Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vicksburg, Miss, there is a seventh of these folk who, like turtles, must periodically submerge themselves. The Vicksburg case is a 12-year-old boy, handled by Dr. Guy Jarrett. The others are cases of Dr. Ralph Bowen of Memphis...
...usual the University singers will be conducted by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club. The program will include "Halleluiah Chorus," by Beethoven; "Adoramus Te," by Palestrina; three English folk songs, "Gently, Johnny," "The Foggy Dew," and "Spanish Ladies"; Der Gang zum Liebchen," by Brahms; choruses from "The Mikado," by Sullivan; and choruses from "Requiem," by Faure. Miss Vreeland will sing two groups of solos...
...income tax was immediately turned to as the first and easiest source of additional revenue. Conservative Republicans favored an increased normal tax (now 1½, 3% and 5%), reduced exemptions (now $1,500 for single persons. $3,500 for married folk) and a general jumping of surtax rates. Senator Smoot favored an increase in the maximum surtax from 20% to 40%. "Progressive" Senators, probably holding the balance of power, clamored for stiffer surtax rates on incomes above $20,000 per year, opposed any move against small taxpayers. Also discussed were new levies on automobiles, radios, amusement admissions, estates, gifts. Only...
...horseback, on foot, in ox-wagons, some 1,100 people trekked in 1909 to a place called Piney Woods, near Braxton, Miss. Some were "the best white people" from Braxton. Quality folk gave sizable sums; poor farmers a few pennies; one old woman brought two geese. Laurence Clifton Jones. Missouri-born Negro who had been teaching in a small Mississippi school, had come to Piney Woods to found a Negro school. He had already taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first...
After an intermission the Harvard club will sing "O Isis and Osiris" by Mozart, three English folk songs, and a group of football songs. The Yale singers will follow with four Yale songs: "Mother of Mon" by Soth Bingham; a tenor solo, "Antoinette Berby" by Cole Porter, sung by Basil D. Henning; "Carolina" from the Yale Song Book, sung by the "Eight Sons of Eli," H. F. Brunner, C. P. Chapman, H. H. Clifford, M. W. A. Hunt, D. C. Jillson, E. P. Small, D. F. Smith, and A. T. Sutherland; "All at Once" from the Yale Song Book...