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...dubious report that a member of AAA's staff suggested that "our objectives" would be furthered if less help for the hungry were forthcoming, that Dr. Tugwell had planned a $1.000,000 institution to incubate radical views among jobless young college graduates, that the government's subsistence homestead project near Morgantown, W. Va. was "communistic...
...George Kojac, N. Y., a backstroke swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Rutgers. Miss Lenore Kight, Homestead, Pa., a free-style swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Boston...
...itinerary includes Providence, New York, Washington, and Hot Springs, Virginia. Three performances will be given at the club house before the trip, and one in Boston at the Repertory Theatre after the trip. Two performances will be given at Hot Springs, both in the theatre of the famous Homestead Hotel. The show will arrive at Hot Springs at the height of the spring resort season there...
...Borsodi, who had set up a private subsistence farm at Suffern, N. Y. when he lost his money in the depression of 1921. went to Dayton, suggested a back-to-the-farm movement for the unemployed. Dayton's response was immediate. Under Dr. Nutting's direction a Homestead Unit Committee was formed, a 160-acre farm acquired. From the Department of Interior Dayton got a $50,000 loan. Homesteaders will be permitted to build their own homes along lines laid down by Architect Ernest Flagg, will be loaned money at low rates of interest to be repaid...
...became its first Moderator. In 1707 he was arrested in New York as a "strolling preacher" at the order of much-hated Lord Cornbury. Jailed for two months, he was tried and acquitted but forced to pay ?83 7s 6d in costs. Francis Makemie died in 1703 at his homestead in eastern Virginia, now called Makemie Park...