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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...Communism is not dead yet!" he warned impressively, "Mr. Ferguson, the Communist candidate at the recent Aberdeen by-election, polled 2,618 votes. Communism is being propagated insidiously throughout our land today...
Thus far the Indian Council of State (upper house) has voted co-operation with Sir John; but the Indian Legislative Assembly (lower house) has rebuffed him completely; and all throughout the spring and summer malcontents have tried to foment an Indian boycott of British goods...
...Villon spoke the jargon of the Coquillards, a medieval freemasonry of blackguards who systematically plundered, lechered, toped throughout France. He wrote vigorous verses, high poetry. Behind these two varying expressions was a weathercock temperament. Born in 1431, he was raised from the age of seven in the home of a benign Parisian priest. Francois took both the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With...
...club, according to a statement issued by members of the organization, will cooperate with the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in waging an active campaign and furnishing speakers for street corner meetings throughout Greater Boston...