Word: outskirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were booted off a CWA sewer job. In the District of Columbia, skilled workers in the Navy Yard complained that their wage-88? an hour, less 15%-was under the $1.10 CWA rate. In West...
...money-an atmosphere of the Midwest, of the lusty young automobile industry, of money still too young to beget staid offspring, but not too young to sow a few wild oats. He himself, now three years short of 50, was 27 years ago a boy from Chicago's outskirt, Evanston, just beginning his financial apprenticeship with N. W. Harris & Co. Six years ago he stepped out of Harris Trust & Savings Bank to carry the banner of finance to the City of Automobiles, to the Land-Where-Things-Were-Done-in-a-Big Way. Help, On the first...
...Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions...
Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington...