Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From "A Pronouncement upon Religious Liberty," passed unanimously by the Southern Baptist Convention in Oklahoma City, Okla., on May 20: "We oppose the establishing of diplomatic relations with any ecclesirstical body, the extension of special couresies by our Government to any ecclesiastical official as such, and the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services that are held to honor any ecclesiastical leader...
...perfect Queen: eyes a snapping blue, chin tilted confidently, two fingers raised in a greeting as girlish as it was regal. Her long-handled parasol seemed out of a story book. She wore an "unselfish" off-the-face hat and the parasol failed to save her Scottish skin from Southern sunburn. Washington was 94° that day. Along the processional route, 500 people collapsed. So did 60 Girl Scouts, waiting at the White House to be reviewed. From the Boy Scouts (he was one) the King received a neckerchief ring made of a fossilized shark's tooth...
Whittling. Also in France still were 350,000 ordinary Spanish refugees encamped en the beaches in southern France. About 90,000 of the original 500,000 refugees who crossed over the border last February have returned to Spain, and last week about 400 daily were going back to their homes. Some 9,000 former soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army have joined the French Foreign Legion and have been sent to Morocco; aviators, antiaircraft gunners, mechanics, technicians and chauffeurs are being taken into French military organizations. French arms factories have been examining daily about 250 Spanish munitions workers, and giving...
...vanishing trade, while he keeps his employes on the job, his goods in circulation, his ledgers in the black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression I and II. Meanwhile, Western and Southern roads, which chopped deep into their passenger fares, reaped a reward in increased passenger revenues, less idleness for rolling stock and men. Last week, the Eastern roads finally enrolled in the low-price school...
Pullman fares (now 3?): to 2.7? for trips over 900 miles; for upper berths (now run empty most of the time) ,2.7? one way, scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...