Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, South Dakota has two Senators, equal in the eyes of the law. Last week the missing Senator appeared. He is William H. McMaster and he came bearing no gifts, singing none of the songs now so popular in the Black Hills about Cal and his gal being his pals. The Senator said that farmers were still determined on the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates...
...Future. Few or none of the broken levees have been repaired, leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November...
...district looks to the Federal Government for a flood-prevention program 'that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee of Arkansas last week...
...Parisian telephone operator, a mother, Mme. Montard had just been put in jail. And how then could she perform her duty to the babe which had nestled at her breast a few hours before? In jail! And what was to become of her four elder children, none as yet in their teens? In jail! And why was Mme. Montard in jail...
...call to Virginia; and Miss Cornelia S. Adair, junior-high-school teacher of Richmond, Va., who was already president of the National League of Classroom Teachers and a vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women,* was put in nomination for the N. E. A. presidency. None was named to oppose her. After the unanimous vote was cast, Miss Adair said: "It surely is mighty nice of you all." All other N. E. A. officers were reelected, Retiring-President Blair becoming a vice president...