Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen Mr. WPA Worker was earnest, well-spoken Clyde Brown of Colfax, Iowa, who kept eight children on $44 a month until he was laid off a road project last fortnight...
...which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...
During the crossing the passengers kept largely to themselves. But when the liner skimmed down over Croydon, then unaccountably roared back up into the air, the plot began to thicken. A mechanic came back into the cabin, lifted up a corner of carpet, pried at a section of floor board. Those who ventured to look below saw fire apparatus and ambulances gathering on the field. The ship's electrically retractable landing wheels had jammed...
...snapped the Guild's solid picket line in front of the Hearst Building (see cut), the bleeding head of Organizer Charles Cain as he and seven other Guilders were roughed up and carted off to a police station, Hearst trucks as they backed up to the line and kept their motors running. Strikers promptly dubbed handsome Publisher Merrill C. ("Babe") Meigs of the American "Monoxide Meigs." Two pickets put on gas masks. Last January the Chicago Hearst management and the Guild signed a one-year contract. Now pending are over 60 charges of contract violations preferred by the Guild...
Roosevelt is completing his college course in three years. Throughout his course he has kept his record untainted with C's and contrary to rumored reports, he attends the majority of his classes and studies hard...