Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ground for this charge is that David Lasser lately has preferred quiet negotiation to violent demonstration. In the Alliance's executive board's report at Cleveland, President Lasser and his 25 colleagues claimed credit for: a raise in Southern relief minima from $21 to $26 per month; sufficient Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local...
...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
...gardens were reported "in an unfortunate condition." In September, 1929, "the avenues of royal pinon and taberind were dashed to the ground," and on this date in 1935, according to the CRIMSON, "many of the buildings were razed, and the greater part of the garden stock was severely injured. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 300 specimens were badly damaged...
Whether this area can be saved even with the strictest precautions observed seems doubtful to Shepard, and while planning for the safety of Petersham's 700 inhabitants, he more or less expects the town to be leveled to the ground along with an inestimable part of the surrounding country...
...delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon the delegates began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers from the definition was opposed on the ground that "they will have our business pretty soon anyway." Before long, however, the 150 delegates settled down to the sober, if small, business at hand. They listened to anti-New Deal speeches by Vice President Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire...