Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to the letter written to you by Hon. D. C. Marshall of Forty Fort, Pa. (TIME, Feb. 1) in regard to the bamboo shoots required for the diet of Su-lin, the giant panda, I noticed that he states the northernmost point he has seen the plant growing is just outside Jacksonville...
...slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...surgeon general, Thomas Parran Jr. They have the sanitation of the Ohio and Mississippi flood areas to supervise (see p. 19), the campaign against venereal diseases to energize (see above) and, a favorite project of both, they are starting a new Federal farm-hospital for narcotic addicts at Fort Worth, Tex. Miss Roche and Dr. Parran considered this project so important that, prior to the Ohio flood disaster, they had arranged to go to Fort Worth this week to lay the cornerstone of the $4,000,000 establishment...
...Fort Worth establishment will be a copy of the successful Federal narcotic farm opened at Lexington, Ky. nearly two years ago, except for a difference in the patients. Lexington is primarily for Federal prisoners who are addicts. Fort Worth is to be primarily for voluntary patients. Volunteers will be obliged to present certificates from their private doctors that they want to take the cure. They must sign an agreement that they will remain in the hospital until discharged. If they can afford it, they must pay $1 a day for board, room, and doctoring. Two years' experience at Lexington...
...Tsar Alexander emancipated his serfs. In Charleston, S. C.. the guns opened on Fort Sumter. Queen Victoria buried her beloved Albert...