Word: marked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand-to-mouth borrowing from lenient bankers could the State keep its institutions halfway going. A serious crisis is anticipated in December when $6,000,000 in State obligations fall...
Last week it took Gary four days of boisterous civic celebrating to commemorate its 25th anniversary and the passing of the 100,000 population mark. Parades moved down its smoke-begrimed streets (Gary has aged far beyond its years). Schoolboys drilled, bands played, horns tooted - and the mills closed for a whole day while workers of 50 nationalities made merry. A downpour bedraggled the last day of the celebration, caused a postponement of park pageants...
That Birth Control report enraged the Patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews of Seattle. Dr. Matthews is lawyer as well as preacher. As soon as he was called to Seattle (1902) he began cleaning up that wicked stopover towards the Klondike goldfields. He disrupted the brothels in the valleys and smashed the gambling dens on the hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah...
Resigned. John Mark Glenn, 72, general director of the Russell Sage Foundation since it was established in 1907; succeeded by Shelby Millard Harrison, vice director; because...
Rowing in the afternoon was delayed until late because of a hard wind. The shell was finally towed down at about 7 o'clock and time trials were held rowing upsircam. No time was given out. The Jayvees, Freshman, and combination crews also went to the two mile mark for time trials but only rowed one mile because of darkness. No times were taken...