Word: references
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to an article entitled "Red Scare" on p. 31 of your July 24 issue...
Chicago, prime exemplar of rotten city finance, sent no important municipal official to attend. The polite guests did not refer to their host city's negligence. They called her not by name, but more than one of them took digs at the type of municipal financing Chicago has done, particularly ''borrowing" from schoolteachers and firemen by foisting on them payless pay days. Chief causes of city financial trouble as diagnosed by the conference...
...current issue of TIME under the heading Milestones, three out of nine notices of marriages refer to the bride as "one," as "George Hearst married one Lorna Pratt Velie; John Duval Dodge married one Dora McDonald Cline; and Prince Alfonso married one Edelmira Sampedro...
Resort people in the Estes Park region, which adjoins the Rocky Mountain National Park, refer to these civilian soldiers who have flocked into our national forests, as ''woodpeckers." Aside from a common habitat there is a further resemblance, for the uniformed men migrate from work-spot to work-spot in old, red, sight-seeing busses from which they descend with a clatter to do their busywork...
...course both houses suspended their rules, conferred official status upon the chickadee. Then it was the State's turn to have fun. The chickadee is a member of the titmouse family. Editors remembered "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" who "lived in a little house," began to refer to the "Tomtit Legislature." Clubs and societies stirred uneasily at the prospect of North Carolina's becoming known as the "tomtit State...