Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
...ever canvassers have met the stock protest: "Why should I give to private charity when I'm being taxed for government relief?" Stock answer: The Government supplies only life's bare necessities. On private charity still depend such important extras as character-building and leisure-time services, neighborhood centres, camps, guidance clinics, health bureaus...
...Representative De Priest on the platform that the New Deal was a boon to blacks and whites alike, he declared: "I would work harder for my people than any other Congressman, but I would not keep thinking about the fact that I was colored." Blacks and whites in his neighborhood liked this conciliatory line, gave him a 3,000 majority on election...
Before the Civil War in the border State of Ohio feeling ran high between the Abolitionists and the Southern sympathizers. The Goodhues, who had originally come from Kentucky, were Union men but bitterly against the Abolitionists. Pa Goodhue was one of the most respected men in the neighborhood but he would have been wiser to keep his political opinions to him self. The Bristowes were nobodies but they were on the right side of the fence, and they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish...
...abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post-operative hemorrhage. Incision was closed completely leaving small rubber tubing as drain. The tube was inserted by stab near the incision leading to neighborhood of opening made in ureter. Technical name for this trouble is calculus or stone in ureter or ureterolithiasis. Operation for removal stone on left ureter is ureterolithotomy. ?Januario R. Estrada...