Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill recently, 70-to-5. Even though a safely conservative Senate was expected to modify the measure, Governor Merriam has come in for a prodigious amount of kicking around by the Hearst Press (whose master at San Simeon would be caught squarely by the tax), industrialists and rich folk in general. Screamed the Hearst San Francisco Examiner last week: "Extortionate and confiscatory taxation will mean . . . devastation of business, paralysis of industry. . . ." Again the motion picture industry has threatened to move out, and assorted tycoons are talking about emigrating to Nevada, Hawaii, Florida, anywhere. Two nationally famous Californians have grown particularly...
Banker Mellon's millions were long ago set aside for his church, hence could not be considered evidence of a renewal of the prosperity which set pious folk to building $200.000,000 worth of churches in 1929. But last week religious statisticians reported new money in sight, the first since church building came to a dead stop in 1931. Examples: C. In Trenton Episcopal Bishop Paul Matthews opened the annual New Jersey diocesan convention by breaking ground for a new $1.000,000 Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some...
Myrtle Lorraine Sands, a young woman who used to work in Los Angeles, where she had fun spotting film folk in public places, is now in charge of re-indexing the records of births, marriages & deaths in the office of the County Register of Deeds, Milwaukee...
Last week, after 21 years of labor, Editor Heffernan opened to the folk of Wyoming Valley a newly-equipped newspaper plant worth $200,000. From a new press rolled 24,000 copies of the Sunday Independent, whose issues range from 50 to 70 pages, complete with world news and metropolitan features. Editor Heffernan beamed proudly through thicklensed spectacles. Within five years, say specialists, not even glasses will enable him to work at his trade...
...urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary. Wounds and ulcers promptly heal under the bland influence of a remarkable chemical, allantoin, which such urine contains. Allantoin also occurs in beets and bruisewort, favorite folk remedies for cuts and ulcers...