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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction of the wheat crop by parching weather "ought to make it easy for the Board...
...Weather. Hot dry days continued throughout the land as farmers despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...
...Lack of food (no eggs, milk, buttered bread, fresh meat); 2) Heat; 3) Despair growing out of the Baumes Laws, with long terms, reduced paroles, no time off for good behavior; 4) Bedbugs, lice, insanitary plumbing; 5) Overcrowding in cell blocks; 6) Petty graft by low-paid guards; 7) Tyranny of prison self-government (Mutual Welfare League...
...trial grew out of a prolonged strike, led by Communist organizations, in textile mills about Gastonia (TIME, June 17). Long had bad blood brewed between strikers and police. Strikers, ejected from company homes, pitched a tent colony on the outskirts of town. On the night of June 7 Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt had gone to this colony where a disturbance threatened. In the dark a fight started. Chief Aderholt was killed, three other peace officers wounded. Fifty persons were arrested. The 16 defendants before Judge Barnhill were those charged with the murder...
...They could, however, have no fear of unholy burial. So long as a body lies in a Catholic cemetery, be it buried in any fashion, it lies in consecrated ground...