Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last month did Reformer Douglas achieve political office. Then he was elected alderman by the town-&-gown black-&-white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...
...lounge car, offices and bedrooms for the staff and party. At every whistle-stop the populace waved frantically, but the only full stop was at Three Rivers, where the King and Queen walked over the tracks on a wooden platform to greet 50,000 appreciative gazers, twice the town's population...
...Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen and King respectively from Dominion bigwigs, hovered over them while they signed the Golden Book at City Hall, led them on a breathless four-hour tour of the town, the Mayor taking bows right and left before throngs, some of whom paid as high as $30 for window seats for the show...
...following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven women, another for 107 men); 2) absence of any laundry facilities; 3) the difficulty of getting enough to eat in one dining car; and 4) the fact that when the King arrives in a town that day automatically becomes a legal holiday, thereby occasioning the closing of all liquor stores...
...Texas high-school youngsters who graduated last year with the slogan: "WPA, here we come," are not typical of U. S. Youth. They prefer to tell about the sandier college class which was told by its history professor that he planned to run for police commissioner of a university town but expected to be defeated by the city machine. The class went out and got him elected...