Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of his new gear Franklin Roosevelt approved with gusto and dispatch-Spend-Lend, Wages & Hours, Deficiency Bill, etc. And during the week he added two executive devices of his own: 1) a raise in pay for all WPA workers in 13 Southern States; 2) a loosening of requirements in bank examinations...
...that the South would never get anywhere unless it paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt Senators happen to be threatened in primary elections, the boosts were...
...booklets of matches arrived just in time to be distributed to the milling crowds of politically excited citizens. . . . Midst the joyous shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
...unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph Shaw, a retired naval lieutenant. Lists of the persons spied...
...southern England 3,000 years ago, voracious packs of wolves roamed the moist lowlands. The savage Britons of that Stone Age period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed...