Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of March 31, on p. 60, you refer to AMORC, the Rosicrucian Order of North America, and for some peculiar reason you speak of me and comment on my religion and my previous business activities. I do not know why my religion or my previous business affairs should be of any interest in connection with a comment on this organization, but since you thought they were of importance, you should have stated them correctly...
Three branches of the U. S. Government await the census results with peculiar interest: 1) The Department of Labor to know the real number of unemployed; 2) the Federal Radio Commission to know the real number of receiving sets in the land; 3) the House of Representatives to know the basis on which each State, under automatic reapportionment, will be given popular representation after...
...mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly attacked Mayor Stricklin, alluding to cattle thieving, a charge for which the Mayor was indicted but exonerated last year. Among these three there was the kind of bad blood peculiar to a Mississippi political feud...
...triumvirate, all America is divided into three parts,, each has his particular sphere of influence. In Washington, Detroit and Cleveland, Pressagent Bell, who left a good job with the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R. five years, ago, handles all circus "public relations." Newark and Cincinnati are the peculiar province of Pressagent Killilea, who abandons his Boston advertising business each March to follow the white tops. Dexter Fellowes is supreme in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee...
...always shadow us?" "I am a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...