Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to evacuate the entire Mississippi flood plain from Cairo to New Orleans. Major General Herbert J. Brees, commanding the Eighth Corps Area on the west bank of the Mississippi, was making preparations to evacuate eastern Arkansas and his troopers were busy setting up concentration camps. In the Fourth Corps Area, east of the Mississippi, Major General George Van Horn Moseley had an even bigger responsibility for on his bank are most of the big river cities, the once great steamboat towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans. He divided his front into three sectors with headquarters at Nashville (which...
...less efficient merchants to compete on equal terms with their larger and more successful competitors. . . . The Robinson-Patman bill would have been beaten to a frazzle if these stores had enlisted the aid of their customers." When the Dry Goods platform finally emerged from the resolutions committee on the fourth day of the convention, it had become a pious resolution approving "the objective toward which the general principles are directed." This was approved unanimously. Having thus sidestepped the issue completely, they turned the platform over to a committee for further study, and many a shrewd merchant privately declared that that...
Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, fourth of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons, is always going somewhere, usually in a hurry. Vacationing from Yale in 1933, he worked for the Rockefellers' Humble Oil and Refining Co. in Texas until a kidnap scare caused him to scuttle for Manhattan in an airplane with a bodyguard. That autumn a Connecticut motorcycle police-man caught him doing 64 m.p.h. on the Boston Post Road. He said he was trying to get a friend to a boat, was fined $27. Early in 1934, because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale...
Odzinski In Chicago's St. Stanislaus Church, Anthony Odzinski, 53, confessed his sins to Priest Henry Jasinski, then climbed to the fourth floor of an adjoining building, jumped to his death. Priest Jasinski administered last rites...
Paralleling modern technological improvements, Nature too is speeding up. A Canadian lad has grown his fourth set of teeth at the age of twelve, and tulips are up already in Buffalo, New York. Science marches, on, and one Dr. Gamboa has discovered that the strength of a woman's handshake increases when she is pregnant. God knows...