Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State-wide situation which has been growing worse all winter. A special session of the State Legislature adjourned the end of February without solving the relief problem, has since been called to meet in another special session for the purpose. Relief funds began to run out in Cleveland last month. Last week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised a $50,000 stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While...
...William Voisine was President of the Village from 1933 to 1936. In the 1936 election he was re-elected by one vote. Newton Hawkins asked for a recount, in which William Voisine's margin was increased to ten. Newton Hawkins took it to the Michigan Supreme Court. Last month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins got the slip lettered ELECTED. Promptly he promised to start suit for the $2,000 salary William Voisine drew while...
News trickling through from neutral and Chinese sources gave reasons for this Japanese loss of optimism and growing sense of desperate action. Although no clear-cut Chinese victory, such as the Taierhchwang capture last month, could be announced, Chinese forces gave every indication of unprecedented, coordinated military action in a series of minor successes throughout virtually the entire war area...
Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...about 30 hours, smoked about 60 pipes, doing a brown and silver study of Dr. George Washington Carver, famed old Negro chemist at Tuskegee Institute. When the Southern States Art League, proud nurse of regional consciousness among artists from New Orleans to Charleston, held its 18th annual exhibition last month in Montgomery, Artist Bairnsfather sent in his portrait. What surprised him, as a Southerner, was that it got the Blanche S. Benjamin prize of $250 for "the loveliest painting of a Southern subject." Jury's reason: ''Spiritual rather than physical loveliness" inspired this breach with a tradition...