Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during the rainy season in the summer...
...report exonerated Commissioner Burke, whose resignation last week was accepted by President Hoover. Mr. Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
...Talbott Co.* All nine children with their husbands and wives and 24 offspring spent last Christmas with Mrs. Talbott in Dayton. The seven comely daughters were with her last week at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, seeing her off for Europe with the choir she subsidizes. Last summer, she went abroad and arranged the tour herself, soliciting the sponsorship of many a European eminent...
...post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting, and that his "spiritual filibuster" had turned into a "war." State troopers were called upon to patrol Malvern's streets when the embattled Methodist partisans became violent. A fervent Sproulite prayed for the devil to "give those heretics, those...