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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover showed further how the problem would be met. He knew it was a third thundering challenge to his national leadership. His political life, he realized, largely depended on what he did this winter. Twice he had tried and failed to hold down Unemployment. His third attempt, he knew, will be judged at renomination time and sentenced or applauded at the subsequent election. Convinced that his relief formula of local self-help was sound, he set about enlarging its scope, enlisting Big Names to increase its prestige. No less than the rising tide of joblessness...
...Pittsfield, Ill., Rose Haskins married Jim Moorehead. Jim Moorehead died. Widow Moorehead married his brother, Leo Moorehead. Leo Moorehead died. Twice-a-Widow Moorehead Moorehead married brother Joe Moorehead...
...strong Insull interests together with Texas Corp., Cities Service Co., Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and other big companies, this line is thought to have an auspicious future, especially since the gas will be sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot natural gas from the South past Chicago, into New England...
Death slipped up on a German party climbing Himalayan Mount Kanchenjunga last week, struck twice, causing anguish which when transcribed became one of the finest bits of journalistic writing this summer...
Every two years since 1922 Publisher Harper has held a $10,000 Prize Novel Contest. Last winner was Expatriate Julian Green's The Dark Journey, a well-written bad seller. This time Publisher Harper, twice shy, has given his prize-money for a book that should not make his ledgers see red. Brothers in the West will not appeal to the precious few but should be read, wept over, thoroughly enjoyed by the common-or-garden reader...