Word: soth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 24-29?Bach festival in conjunction with Boston Symphony Orchestra's soth anniversary celebration; at Symphony Hall, Boston...
...Federal construction. He praised local efforts to supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds of the 418 delegates. A resolution was adopted calling upon President Hoover to appoint a national committee to deal more effectively with joblessness. (The President's Cabinet Commission was named 48 hours later...
...well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named him Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina's Eastern district...
...celebrate its soth annual meeting, held last week in Manhattan, the Associated Press announced that it had transmitted, on March 31. a message twice around the world through 22 of its bureaus and those of the allied Reuters news agency in 2 hr. 5 min. That was cheering news to A. P. men whose meeting this year lasted but a day and whose openly discussed problems were few. routine. Ot greater public interest, however, was a thoroughgoing criticism of their organization just completed in two installments by aggressive Oswald Garrison Villard. onetime (1897-1918) president of the New York Evening...
Last week she swung into Chicago for the final wind-up of her campaign. Observers pronounced her tactics a credit to her astute father's memory. She celebrated her soth birthday anniversary by receiving an enormous cake-model of the Senate wing of the U. S. Capitol...