Word: townships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters in a bathing beauty contest (see cut) elicited this response: "My girls must never be repressed. Their minds must not be filled with other people...
...Lome township, Ontario, Canada, William Minkinen, 55, leaped from a high rock into Vermillion River, slashing his throat with & knife in his right hand, holding a lighted stick of dynamite in his left. The cut was superficial, the explosion blew off his left hand. William Minkinen died of drowning...
...common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land had at him as never before in his quiet respectable 45 years. Among the first communications that came before him was the following: "We, the undersigned men and women, American citizens living on our own land in West Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N. J., conscious of our American heritage and determined to preserve it, hereby solemnly resolve...
What the 35 citizens of West Amwell Township were taking a defiant stand against was a 15,000-word rider attached to the AAAmendments which became law fortnight ago, a rider which was discussed for not more than an hour in either house of Congress, was not supported by the AAA or by any national farm organization and yet was binding upon some 3,000,000 U.S. farmers who raise potatoes...
Such was the law about which the citizens of West Amwell Township complained. To enforce it Mr. Hutson was to have had an initial appropriation of $5,000,000, no great sum in view of the fact that the number of potential potato leggers far exceeds the number of potential liquor leggers under Prohibition. But as a further handicap the appropriation for enforcement failed of enactment with the Third Deficiency Bill. One private consolation Mr. Hutson had: the Supreme Court would probably declare Potato Control unconstitutional since the whole scheme depends on a confiscatory "tax" which makes no pretense...