Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural State road program this year provided jobs for 3,000 additional Chandler workers. Chandler supporters are this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers of liquor and beer Happy has given a 40-day extension of their licenses, just beyond primary day. If a lot of free drinks are not served on his behalf it will be a great shame...
Texas Democrats proceeded to write in a fashion beyond the blackest dreams of old politicos to whom Amateur O'Daniel was a radio freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll...
...wide-eyed, fresh-faced girl of 14, watching the changing of sentries at Whitehall, was invited by troopers of the Royal Horse Guards to see "the horse with the green tail" in their stables. Inside, two troopers raped her while others held her. Arrested and brought to trial month ago, two troopers were given sentences of four years each, a third sentenced to 22 months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better...
Likewise last week, Mormons everywhere marked the 100th anniversary of the month during which Founder Smith, making known to his people the will of the Lord, decreed that the work of his church should be supported by tithes- 10% of everyone's income. How much the tithing fund of the church amounts to today, no outsider knows. Tithing is not compulsory for all Mormon wage earners, although certain privileges of the church are denied to those who give nothing. About one-third pay tithes in full, another third in part. Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last...
...Britain's radio voice, sole dispenser of programs to some 8,500,000 licensed radio sets in the British Isles, broadcaster of short-wave service to the distant outposts of Empire, operator of the world's first schedule of television broadcasts for public entertainment. Therefore, last month when Sir John Reith's new appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped...