Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mackinac Island, Mich., last week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator...
Unemployment. As a first step in his plan to solve the unemployment problem, Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas introduced a resolution authorizing the Treasury to advance $5,000,000 a year to help develop the Colonies and Mandated Territories. Carefully he explained that by developing the Colonies (not the self-governing Dominions) they would directly aid British unemployment by increasing the demand for British exports in those colonies...
...York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
...Washington Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition, was sorely troubled. He "supposed" that the agents had shot in self-defense. Within four weeks U. S. dry bullets had killed six persons...
...Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall be lost. The present policy in Russia is a very deliberate one and is intended not merely to destroy every vestige of Jewishness in Russian Jewish life but also to destroy the most self-conscious element of Russian Jewry-the Zionists. . . . These are the days for protest and condemnation...