Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons Mr. Moffett, who had promised early in July that his organization would be functioning in 30 days, found his plan's hung up. The campaign for new building was postponed to concentrate on modernization. Last week Alma McCrum, a Washington insurance agent, marched into a bank, signed a note, and as flashlights flickered, was given $1,200 to remodel the second floor of her home and rent it as an apartment. The housing drive...
...interesting to note in this same article that "the Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strike-breaking." This fear on the part of the Government, which caused it to allow this immense herd to suffer after being corralled by its officials, may explain in part why our Government is being defied and its Federal arbitrators made monkeys of by A. F. of L. unions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kohler and other cities. This noisy organization apparently has the present Administration on the run, casting aside in their...
Almost immediately there was a bang in the back of the cab. The driver thought another car had backfired. At his destination he found the Major dead, blood streaming from a pistol wound in his head. There was a note on the seat beside...
...ashamed of our toleration of the slums, which in disproportionate measure continue to make criminals and prostitutes of many boys and girls who never had a chance. Reflecting the New Dealish attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, the prayer "For Labor" comes closest to striking a political note...
...fresh note rather than a new one is struck in Poet Engle's writings. Enthusiasts may compare him to Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works...