Word: polk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronze he rides, saluting James K. Polk...
...some 50 cars met the State's Junior Senator Pepper, escorted him with honking horns to St. Cloud's city limits where he was met by the town's band and drum corps. From St. Cloud, the motorcade, swollen to 250, followed the Senator around Polk County through Davenport, Haines City, Auburndale and Winter Haven to Bartow where Claude Pepper climaxed a typical day by announcing to a crowd of 2,000 that he would vote for the Townsend plan even if the President vetoed...
...Review a nationwide chart of trade volume at the end of January (see map). Prepared by Dr. L. D. H. Weld of McCann-Erickson, Inc., the chart was based upon Federal Reserve Board figures for bank debits, wholesale sales and department store sales, R. L. Polk & Co. figures on new car registrations, Editor & Publisher's statistics on advertising lineage and Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau statistics on new policies. Aside from variations in the price level, for which Dr. Weld made no provision, the Dun & Bradstreet analysis gives about the best picture of the current distribution of depression. Published...
...hand out Civil War pensions. It gave one to the widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
Died. Lansing Parmelee Reed, 55, law partner of John W. Davis, Allen Wardwell and Frank L. Polk; of pneumonia; in his Manhattan apartment...