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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the local branch is to project the economic and professional status of college and school instructors, combatting such legislation as the Teachers' Oath Law. During the summer, with the cooperation of the Massachusetts Society for Freedom in Teaching, the union continued the fight against the Oath Bill by opposing the reelection of all sponsors of the bill. Partly through its activities, Thomas Dorgan, former representative from Dorchester and principal sponsor of the bill, was defeated for clerk of court...
Pulling at their old-and-mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took...
...Japanese bluejacket and thus offending the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This culminated a series of "incidents" during the past two months. When mysterious individuals in Chinese costume, possibly disguised Japanese agents provocateurs, then fired from ambush in Shanghai, killing a Japanese sailor and wounding two others, the local Japanese war machine instantly went into action...
...first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying to rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship...
Although Author Asbury devotes separate chapters to such old standbys for local colorists as the keelboatmen, voodoo, Lafitte the Pirate, riverboat gamblers, the Black Hand Society and the Mafia, most of his book is given over to the swift summaries of crimes of violence and to careful description of the histories, habits, earnings and untimely ends of the lost ladies who once crowded Basin Street and the district nearby. Typical of these case histories is that of Fanny Sweet, tall, homely, bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city...