Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting...
...real surprise came during a mass interview in the Ambassador Hotel, where Douglas Corrigan was assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...
Petersham, Mass., Sept. 23: With all hands kept busy clearing roads, there has been little time to make a survey of the damage to the Harvard Forest as a whole. However, this whole region has been very hard hit, with extensive areas of timber completely levelled...
Piqued by the saying that there was increased concentration of wealth, Dr. Rufus Stickney Tucker, rumbly-voiced associate economist for General Motors, year ago began studying The Distribution of Income among Income Taxpayers in the U. S., 1863-1935. His chief conclusions, which he presents in a mass of charts: There is a great concentration of wealth, but it is far less than it once was, for "persons with incomes equivalent in purchasing power to between 4,000 and 10,000 1929 dollars have become a much larger proportion of the population since 1916, and those with incomes equivalent...