Word: groves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brink of defaulting on its public debt.* Bankruptcy threatened to close its schools, turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what...
...Governor asked legislators to calculate the cost of their trip to Jackson and send him a check for the amount to complete the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. Said he: "In this way you'll help the Lord instead of the Big Four to play politics...
...bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members of the House. At Christ Church, too small for everybody, Bishop Coadjutor Henry Wise Hobson conducted the brief Episcopal service. At Spring Grove cemetery near the Longworth shaft of granite the Speaker was laid away in the ground while an airplane etched against a very blue sky dropped roses...
According to cables from Japan, His Majesty highly praised the cherry tree grove of His Imperial Majesty, then gracefully introduced a less weighty topic, saying: "Have you a golf course...
...family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster, but he did not engage seriously in aviation until 1924. He founded Pit cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route to the Curtiss-Keys group...