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...Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement of all WPAers unable to get work, 3) a "furlough status" for those finding temporary private employment...
General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation...
...nursed Robert back to health, was the daughter of a divided family. Her father was on Longstreet's staff; her two brothers were fighting for the North. More than her Southern ancestry divided her from Robert. He felt himself an ignorant yokel compared to her; but before his furlough ended he knew he loved her. By the time he got back to the Army of the Cumberland, Ann had followed her father down into Georgia, inside the Confederate lines. But those were the days when Confederate lines were drawing in. Just before the two armies fumbled their way into...
...about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
When, in San Francisco last fortnight, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa learned he could make a U. S. lecture tour only if accompanied by a doctor or nurse to prevent his spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used...