Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...states should coordinate and amplify local efforts. The Federal government should collate and publish general information, statistics and scientific research. In other words (Chairman Wilbur's) : "No one should get the idea that Uncle Sam is going to rock the baby to sleep...
...Banks & Co., important Southern banking group, is headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...
...Arkansas 35 banks closed in one day. Biggest of these was American Ex change Trust Co. of Little Rock which exercised the State law allowing a bank to close for five days...
...Washington" because he was chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. They had defeated Indiana's Elliott who, as chairman of the Public Buildings & Grounds Committee, helped put through legislation to beautify Washington, build hundreds of post offices. They had beaten Mrs. Katherine Langley in her mountainous, rock-ribbed-Republican district in Kentucky. In the first Tennessee district Republican Representative B. Carroll Reece, the only party man President Hoover had endorsed for reelection, was beaten by Oscar Byrd Lovette, an Independent...
...from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown 35 ft. The bodies of 79 dead men lay scattered about, maimed by the explosion or torture-twisted by the gas. Nevertheless, 20 live men were found huddled in a pocket in the rock. They had built a brattice or partition of wood and canvas between them and the gas, under the leadership of Mine Foreman John Dean who, after carrying most of his companions behind the brattice, was so badly gassed he was expected to die. President Titus and his party of guests...