Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customs collector in Davao, main town of Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week...
...unbarbed items in Pins & Needles, the revue produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is a wistful number called Sunday in the Park, depicting the tribulations of the proletariat when it deserts New York's teeming streets for its teeming parks. A man who enjoys such simple proletarian pleasures is former Garment-Cutter David Dubinsky, president of I.L.G.W.U. Unlike many labor leaders, he would rather ride on a bicycle than bet on a bicycle race. Palm Sunday, stocky little President Dubinsky, attired in a leather windbreaker, was pedaling through New York's Central Park...
...true that some Roosevelt coattail riders got short rides. But since the total number of Republican votes cast was so small that it was virtually ignored by the public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
...years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy became difficult. The number of wives decreased, the number of prostitutes increased among Iran's heavy female population...
...spring trips, the one most justified is that of the major sport baseball, regardless of the number of games washed out; and the lacrosse tour also is undoubtedly a help to the team. Whether or not the expense of this extra training is fair in view of the financial difficulties of he other minor sports is another question. No excuse can be found for the money spent on the tennis junket, however, for year in and year out a large percentage of the matches have to be cancelled. It would be best to drop this trip altogether and sink...