Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most enthusiastic signature-collector of all was one Irving ("Fig") Newton, of Los Angeles. Boyish-looking Fig Newton, Cherokee-blooded and a onetime vaudevillian, promoted seven separate petitions, ranging from a Sunday closing blue law to freedom for Political Prisoner Tom Mooney. Most interesting Newton proposal was a $100-a-month pension for the needy blind and disabled to be financed by a State-run lottery. Chairman of the Lottery Board, at $10,000 a year, would be Irving ("Fig") Newton...
Last year the death of his father kicked Son Runciman upstairs into the peerage, curtailed his chances of becoming Prime Minister. Among Lord Runciman's varied interests are teaching Sunday School and yachting-he has sailed over 500.000 miles on salt water, and Sunbeam, one of his yachts, has twice taken him around the world. Last week, while headlines screamed his name in every land. Lord Runciman characteristically went down to yacht for a few days at Cowes, remote even from His Majesty's Government. This week he speeds to Prague to become Mediator...
Both groups join in Sunday night forums at St. Stephen's, in which Catholics and Jews speak as well as Protestants. Other Anti-Mothball activities include dances, watermelon parties, athletic games. Jack Hart's Collegians, his semiprofessional baseball team on which he plays left field, have won 18 and tied three of their 32 games this season. Busy Jack Hart also runs an employment agency for his Anti-Mothballers...
...broad interests were reflected most clearly on the first page of the Sunday editorial section, long known as "the dignity page." Here were expositions of significant national and international developments ; detailed exposés of economic, religious, racial repression, written by reporters who knew their stories would get into print. Most spectacular example of his editorial discretion was his iron refusal to accept the news of the Armistice that turned out to be false. Bovard was always calm, never lost control of his emotions. Once his star rewrite man got a big story just before the deadline, became so nervous...
Ponce is the place where 21 persons were killed, over 100 injured on Palm Sunday 1937, when the anti-U. S. Nationalists (a terrorist minority) started shooting at police who had forbidden a parade. Last week, crashing over the heads of paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly ripped into the reviewing stand. A Puerto Rican Senator and 30 others dropped. A National Guard officer fell, fatally wounded. The shooters were Nationalist agitators who had denounced the celebration as a "shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. When police had restored order, killing one Nationalist, Governor Winship, unhurt, congratulated the excited...