Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country we traverse. If it does, then you're wrong again. The Mississippi Valley isn't "backwoods." Neither is the famous, fertile Red River Valley. Neither is the rich, agricultural section of North Texas. (I'm attaching a map showing this country. You oughta read up about us. You'd get a different picture.) Something else. Take a peek at the bond market. L. & A. bonds look all right, don't they? Try our annual statement for last year! We're doing better than some who ain't "backwoods...
...year later in a Buffalo dive, Jack Gaffney, a dissolute young saloonkeeper, shot a man in a game of cards. When he was convicted of murder, the young sheriff went to law to test his sanity, even convoked a special jury and himself read them the law on insanity and murder. Unable to escape by this means, the sheriff played hangman a second time...
...many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
...Read another: "Snellenburg's gave a week off without pay at Christmas. Some present...
...Read one in the hands of an undersized freight rustler: "DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS...