Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having regard to the manner in which the busts of eminent Americans find their way into University Heights' Hall of Fame a group of twelve men meeting in this town submit the following eminent contemporaries for consideration after 1965. You will note that under the present three-fifths rule only the first four were elected...
...Italians in private, refused to take seriously Premier Mussolini's "unofficial" campaign for French lands. In Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy for the Negus Negusti...
...sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only...
Above the drum roll which U. S. parsons beat week in, week out, a flute note piped up last week. The flutist was feminine. In Manhattan's Town Hall, under the auspices of the League for Political Education, a comely young Ph. D. named Ruth Alexander pleaded religion's cause in a lecture, Religion as a Force in Government, which she has delivered up & down the land...
...behave themselves, an authoritarian U. S. Government will teach them how. Miss Alexander's message: "Have a religious experience for your country's sake." Dr. Alexander has lectured before the Pennsylvania Electric Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the D. A. R. Her contented-looking Town Hall audience last week nodded and applauded vigorous agreement with such of her points as: "Hardship is the only builder of character known to mankind...