Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies of National Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising 2 ft. an hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt...
This week in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune (circulation: 116,673 daily. 158,-544 Sunday) joined the roster of 96 U. S. dailies more than 100 years old. A 274-page edition, a deal of civic celebration marked the stanch old journal's centennial. Once suspended by Union General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler, the Picayune was edited in its palmiest post-Reconstruction days by Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson, who married the paper's publisher and then its business manager when he died. In 1914, the Picayune swallowed the Times-Democrat. The Times-Picayune, whose last great battle...
President and Mrs. Conant will be out of town and therefore will be unable to be at home to students at the President's House on Sunday afternoon, January...
...Indianapolis, Jerry W. Flanders, 24, hired a soloist to sing Gloomy Sunday at his funeral, was arrested in a downtown saloon just as he was about to drink a glass of poisoned beer...
...Archibald T. Davidson '06, professor of music, the Appleton Chapel choir gave a half hour broadcast ever station WNAC yesterday as a feature of the Catholic Truth Hour. Another program of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music, including works by Byrd, Lotti, and Palestrina will be given next Sunday on the same broadcast...