Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metagalactic cloud" appeared on the Harvard plates in the course of a survey that is recording all galaxies in the sky brighter than the 18th magnitude. The system first was signaled out as a "major irregularity" in he distribution of faint galaxies in the southern sky, Dr.Shapley said...
...their lives in the Civil War. The Grand Army of the Republic, under its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, followed up the idea, and chose May 30, 1868 as the day for respecting Union graves. The holiday was quickly made annual by all save seven of the southern states, while Virginia recognized the occasion each year, but called it "Confederate Memorial Day". Thus Memorial Day is virtually a national event, and after almost seventy years of steady observance, has assumed a position of real traditional rank...
Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...
...Southern Baptists. In New Orleans met 6,000 members of the Southern Baptist Church whose enrollment in 1936 rose by nearly 100,000 to 4.482,315, whose income increased $2,000,000 to $29,188,687. The Southern Baptists passed the usual resolutions on liquor, armaments, etc., added newer ones suggesting that "surely 16 is young enough" for girls to marry, and condemning smoking for women, preachers and other church workers. Unscheduled, a 28-year-old minister of Anniston, Ala. named Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr. arose to cry: "We must face the real issues of life. ... I cannot adopt...
CALL IT FREEDOM-Marian Sims-Lippincott ($2.50). Southern romance about a middle-class divorcee who broke herself of ten-year marriage habits on a circumspect male diet...