Word: fredonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, Alf Landon declared: "We will not take our economies out of ... the unemployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters." A relief dispute in his own State last week gave the Republican Nominee a chance for further remarks in this direction. In his Fredonia. Kans. Herald, District WPAdministrator Ben Hudson lately asserted that administrative costs of Kansas' State Emergency Relief Committee were five times as much as those of its Federal WPAdministration...
...Mayor Harry B. Hickey of Fredonia, N. Y. protested to the Marxes: "The name of Fredonia has been without a blot since 1817. I feel it is my duty as Mayor to question your intentions in using the name of our city in your picture." Back cracked the Marxes: "Your excellency: Our advice is that you change the name of your town. It is hurting our picture. Anyhow, what makes you think you are Mayor of Fredonia? Do you wear a black moustache, play the harp, speak with an Italian accent or chase girls like Harpo? We are certain...
...Company. Now 33. Bob Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...
...Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land of the United States, is lost beyond the last long hills over which the soul of Trist Loner ran its ghostly last. In a hurry to tell the news. That is American, Trist's hurry to tell the news, old news that...
...Fredonia, Iowa, five youths seized Mayor Jerry Vandyke, cut off the whiskers he had cultivated for many years. Perturbed, Mayor Vandyke had the boys sentenced to attend Sunday school once a week for a year...