Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries were harbored in mass while their crews roamed the streets and pubs of Norfolk...
...town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica high-school senior class, $25 that its members had saved for their annual trip to the Georgia seacoast...
...stuff to newspapers as well as to students of mass psychology, the phenomenon of erroneously attributed wildfire tales like last week's is fairly new stuff to radio. Re-examination of WMCA's letters revealed that no correspondent claimed to have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...
...wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile of its 2,110 covers traces of the covered wagons...
...memory of a former member of the Law School faculty. For the purpose, a wing of the Law School library reading room was entirely redecorated and refurnished so far as possible in the manner of a home library. The architect was John W. Ames, Harvard '92, of Cambridge, Mass...