Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State budget had increased some 16 millions, reaching $232,641,701. He explained how the money was spent, for highways, education, hospitals, prisons, conservation, claims, public works. He pointed out that the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, had only been able to lop $25,000 from his Administration figures, and had...
Father. "I got married 28 years ago on the sixth of May, and nobody gave me a tumble. If any photographers had been there I'd have stood on my head for them." That was Father Smith talking-joshing with reporters before the stately wedding of his daughter, Catherine...
In Slater, Mo., Ocie Wilson, Negro, killed Romeo Logan, Negro, in a crap-game fight. City marshal and constable came to take Ocie Wilson to jail. While they were taking him there, a large car without license plates cornered their auto against the curb. Twelve men, wearing masks, got out...
Cheek-Neal Co. of Nashville makes Maxwell coffee. Fifty-five years ago Joel O. Cheek and J. Will Neal worked for a wholesale grocer at Nashville. Mr. Cheek's job was to sell coffee to the general stores of Tennessee hill villages. He rode a saddle horse and carried...
That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid...