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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of midsummer many strange notions pop into people's heads. Last week one Clarence Giles, a 220-lb., 41-year-old Montana livestock auctioneer, took a notion to swim nonstop down the Yellowstone River from Billings to Glendive-288 miles-for no apparent reason except to see his name in the papers and put his hometown of Glendive...
When Steve Stanko took his turn last week he made the judges' eyes pop. In the press, he lifted 270 Ibs., for a new U. S. record. In the snatch, he raised 280 Ibs., for another U. S. record. When his score was tallied, Bar Bellman Stanko not only won the U. S. heavyweight championship but broke a third U. S. record with a total...
...Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk...
...bank interest rates have been cut or abolished. Few weeks ago New Jersey's banking department ordered banks to cut interest to a maximum of 1% on savings and time deposits, and local bankers were somewhat apprehensive of mass withdrawals. Quite different was the situation in Booneville, Iowa (pop...
Phenix City is a good example of a bookless U. S. town, but it is by no means unusual. Literary deserts also are Shelbyville, Tenn. (pop. 5,010), Picher, Okla. (pop. 7,773), Jenkins, Ky. (pop. 8,465), Kingsford, Mich. (pop. 5,526), Manville, N. J. (pop. 5,441), many another U. S. town. Of 3,072 U. S. counties, 897 have no libraries. Of 982 cities over 10,000 population, 40 are libraryless. Thirty-two million people (geographically two-thirds of the U. S.) have no bookstores...