Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This accident at landing was one which would not ordinarily occur and which can easily be prevented in the future by using rock-wool instead of excelsior...
...rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy, but a trifle compared to the cost of other Federal efforts to aid the underprivileged. Only tenants qualifying for the new houses would be the rock-bottom 15% of the lower third which President Roosevelt has labeled "ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed"-about 175,000 families earning some $50 a month and paying about $5 rent per room...
...Negro Robert Morris, 21, was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, became the first U. S. Negro lawyer on record. In 1873, at Little Rock, Ark., Mifflin W. Gibbs became the first Negro municipal court judge. Not until 1937 when President Roosevelt named 32-year-old William Henry Hastie to be Federal judge in the Virgin Islands had a Negro ever sat on a Federal bench...
...Snellenburg & Co., catering to thrifty buyers of low-priced goods, has been doing a lively business on Market Street since 1889 when the Snellenburg boys moved into that famed shopping centre from South Street. Distinctly high-class was- and is-Snellenburg's firm of lawyers, Brown & Williams, a rock-ribbed partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg...
...When I die I want you to place my body in the office of the Mercury. Start the press and keep it running. Show the mourners the new Linotype. And have a Negro chorus sing the Rock of Ages...