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...Catholic. In Georgia theatres last week, for the first time in the memory of man, newsreel shots of a Republican candi date drew loud applause. In Alabama (which missed going Republican by only 7,000 votes in 1928) the State's first Willkie club was formed in Jasper, Speaker William Bankhead's home town, and Willkie's newsreel face was cheered...
...about J. E. Mackey, storekeeper of neighboring Rome, who had gone to Costa Mesa, Calif, to live? Mackey was the next to get a $100 surprise. The next, Mrs. Henry S. Wilson, another widow of an Ava merchant, straightway ran across the street to show her friend old Dr. Jasper Leonard Gentry her check for $50. Said she: "You'll be next to get one of these...
Died. Hope Short, second-born of the Nauvoo, Ala. quadruplets (Sisters Faith, Charity; Brother Franklin-TIME, Feb. 26); of colic; in Jasper, Ala., after a life of 40 days...
...month pension after the age of 60, went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back on the race tracks? Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before resigning in favor of the vice mayor, who would...
Home was the word last week, home to Tallahassee, Tonopah, Cheyenne, home to Havana, Ill., Searcy, Ark., Atherton, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Jasper, Ala., Yankton, S. Dak., Clovis, N. Mex.-home to the 531 communities, hamlets, cities and wide places in the roads where dwell the 531 Congressmen and Senators of the U. S. For debate on the arms embargo was over. And as President, Vice President, Senators, Representatives and their wives, secretaries and advisers hurried home last week, it was plain that few big legislative discussions in U. S. history had ever begun so tensely, ended so quietly...