Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary...
...little Bardstown, Ky. (pop.: 1,767) last week a local legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...
...spunky young Cubans who procreate their country's best revolutions and call themselves the ABC were in virile mood last week, threatening to make things pop...
...life is the mercurochrome he put on the fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating at the polls. He was born on a small farm three miles west of Utica in western Pennsylvania, the summer home of his Presbyterian minister father.- In nearby Grove City (pop. 6.156), where his father had a pastorate and a professorship of Biblical Literature in tiny Grove City College, he grew up as any healthy, normal boy grows up in a U. S. small town. At Grove City College he played on a class basketball team, made good grades without half trying, captained...
...thousands people poured into Jacksonville (pop.: 7,000), "tomato capital of Texas," to see Queen Billye Sue Hackney crowned. A parade two miles long, with 25 floats, took one hour to pass through its streets. Trumpets blared across the baseball field, pages and ushers bowed and scraped as the Queen, escorted by the Royal Court of the Tomato, stepped up on a platform, and Jacksonville's Mayor Acker slipped a crown of jewels over her head. Jacksonville danced and drank far into the night at the Queen's Ball, and next day 5,000 farmers went...