Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dover (pop. 4,800) is the nation's third smallest State capital.* Its main street is a continuation of famed du Pont highway. Facing the highway, a handsome Colonial building on a spacious green houses minuscule Delaware's equally minuscule General Assembly. In the House there are 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. The Republicans control the Senate of 17 by one vote. Because Dover is no more than 60 mi. from any adjoining State border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live...
...Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting the governing laws of New York City (pop. 7,000,000) is always the most important question in New York State (pop. 12,600,000). Therefore, the Governor, himself a member of a rich, respectable banking family of New York City, eyed carefully all the LaGuardia proposals. Then he called in his stenographer and let fly the hottest...
Cars for the Classes. If cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special fully streamlined model called "Silver Arrow." This year nearly all Pierce-Arrows are Silver Arrows-in varying degrees. In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional...
...Jonesboro, Ark. (pop.: 10,326), home of Senator Hattie Caraway, two years ago it took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered...
Crowley departed, returned with a gun, shot him dead. Arrested for murder, Evangelist Crowley was hustled away lest Jonesboro's excitable Baptists cause more trouble. Last week he went on trial at Piggott (pop.: 1,885) before a jury of four Methodists, two Baptists, six nonchurchgoers. Defendant Crowley, pleading self-defense, said that the janitor pointed a gun at him. "My only impulse was to save my life and there came before me in a flash-my wife and babies. I believed my gun was my only hope." The Piggott jury deliberated three minutes, acquitted Evangelist Crowley...