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Word: townely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Beal is a Yankee who turned radical during his boyhood in the mill-town of Lawrence, Mass. His journey down the Marxist road, took him to Gastonia, N. C., where in 1929, along with other northern Communists, he organized and led a bloody textile strike. In a raid on union headquarters, Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Dartmouth's in town again" to continue an age-old rivalry and with every intention of tearing apart not only eleven Crimson stalwarts, but the goal-posts and all of Metropolitan Boston, as has been their custom in recent years...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Squad Set to Meet Fierce Indian Onslaught; Dinner Heralds Forty-Sixth Meeting of Two Teams | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...number of years, he was professor of Government and chairman of the department at West Virginia University, and was rumored to be the principal braintruster for the governor of that state. After resigning, Sly went to Princeton to head the Local Government Survey. He is the author of "Town Government in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLY TO GIVE SPECIAL GOVERNMENT LECTURES | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Nopokum said that he sprang from the reservation of Tablefortoo, which is adjoining to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. By today he expects a "heap big" tribe of fellow Indians to stagger into town on a beer truck with every intention of pitching their tepees in Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invading Indian Demands Room in Stoughton Hall | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...slashed rentals almost 50% ($14 to $7.50 a sq. ft.) in Fair-owned buildings; 2) cut ground rentals 10% for those who had built their own buildings; 3) offered a 50% rent cut to all States exhibiting; 4) advertised sites in the Fair's Town of Tomorrow at a 30% markdown; 5) abolished all charges for removing garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tomorrow and 1940 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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