Word: neb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Lincoln, Neb...
...football crowd in the land could have been cheerier than the throng of farmers, bundled in sheepskins and mackinaws, who converged one morning last week in 15,000 automobiles on Farmer Ben Stalp's place near West Point, Neb. to see the National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...
...grim, menacing contrast was another, smaller crowd of farmers 25 mi. away at Thurston, Neb. Pickets of the Farm Holiday Association, they burned a railroad bridge on the line into Sioux City. Other picketers burned a bridge over near Portsmouth, Iowa. Elsewhere in Iowa and in Wisconsin and Minnesota there was violence last week. But it was fitful, sporadic violence. Milo Reno's great Corn Belt uprising was not rising "in full gear" as he had urged. Checks from the Agriculture Adjustment Administration were descending on the land in a gentle, pervasive rain, damping the prairie fire of farmers...
...Omaha, Neb...
...Franklin, Neb., Clarence Mitchell, 42, once with the New York Giants, pitched for both sides in a game between the Arnold and Thedford teams, gave only four hits, defeated himself...