Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiritual descendants of old German Pietists were the members of the "Community of True Inspiration" who, hounded from their homeland, settled at Ebenezer, N. Y. in 1843. Outgrowing this home, the community trekked westward to Amana, where it acquired 26.000 acres of good farmland. The colonists built seven villages of unpainted German-style houses...
...House: ¶ Virtually scuttled the New Deal's plans for improving the lot of tenant farmers and sharecroppers when seven Democrats joined with six Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee and killed (13 to 11) the section of the Farm Tenancy bill that provided for an appropriation of $50,000,000 annually for ten years to finance farmers seeking to purchase farms they now operate for absentee owners. Day before suffering their first major legislative setback in the present Congress, President Roosevelt, who had previously made the farm tenancy problem the subject of a special message, made a personal...
...choice pages the huge province of Burma, nearly seven times the size of England, was detached from India alto gether and set up as a separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon Sir Archibald Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Star of India, D. S. O. Also de tached from India and set up last week as a Crown Colony was small, highly strategic Aden, only 80 sq. mi. in area...
...same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...
Died. Benjamin K. Focht, 74, long-time Representative from Pennsylvania, editor & publisher of the Lewisburg Saturday News since 1881; of heart disease; in Washington, where he had served seven terms in Congress since...