Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus one day last week did Franklin Roosevelt, who has often told correspondents what to write, seize an opportunity to report on himself. His cruiser, U. S. S. Houston lay anchored off Albemarle Island, largest of Ecuador's twelve-island Galapagos group...
Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought...
...clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would lay out money to vote for politicians. To fulfill his campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel must find $42,000,000 a year to give every Texan over 65 a $30-per-month pension, and bring tax-wary industry flocking into Texas. Said he: "I'll just...
Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway...
...minutes after he swallowed the poison the solitary man wrote: "Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. God bless Jeanette and Willie and Martin...