Word: torchlights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson, commander in chief of NRA. The glory, was 400 codes signed, 20,000.000 of the country's workers covered, child labor on the way out, 2,785,000 people back at work and $3,000,000,000 added to the nation's payroll (he claimed), torchlight parades, blaring radios, speeches in the streets, everybody promising: "We Do Our Part." The U.S. had broken out of its long depression paralysis...
...Yreka, Calif., citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...
...rally itself, to be patterned after the one preceding the Dartmouth game, will get under way when a torchlight parade, led by the band, will wend its way through the Yard to the steps of the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock. A warm-up for tonight's festivities was given last night in the new Lecture Hal when more than 500 students listened to Jayvee Coach Henry Lamar comment on the movies of he Princeton and Dartmouth games. Plans are under way to show other movies of coming games later on in the month...
Greater Boston Republicans will wind up their campaign with torchlight parades here and a mammoth rally at the Cambridge Rindge Technical High School tonight where bigwig Republicans will speak...
...large portion of the Band will assemble in the Yard shortly before 7 o'clock and lead a torchlight procession of freshmen to the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, meeting the upperclassmen there. This rally is open to girls, which fact is expected to swell the attendance considerably...