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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June, on Blue Mountain and Morant Estates in the Parish of St. Thomas, the coconut pickers were on strike for a week, then went back to work at their old rate. The week before the strike they did twice their usual work so that they would lose nothing by a week of rest...
...Georgia . . . my friend the senior Senator [Mr. George] . . . cannot possibly in my judgment be classified as belonging to the liberal school of thought. . . . I speak in terms of liberal and conservative, for the very simple fact that on my shoulders rests a responsibility to the people of this country. Twice I have been chosen Chief Executive with the mandate to seek by definite action to correct many evils of the past and of the present: to work for a wider distribution of national income, to improve the conditions of life, especially among those who need it most and above...
Taken over by WPA under Hydrographic Office sponsorship, the Tables last week employed some 250 white-collar Philadelphia Reliefers, headed by eight non-Relief supervisors, including six mathematicians. With a $195,000 appropriation, WPA figures its workers will make 9,000,000 separate computations (each value being computed twice independently and then checked), fill five more volumes of tables with an average 300 pages in each, turn the whole over to the Hydrographic Office for publication next year...
Superstitious, nervous spinsters bank on the old adage that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Superstitious, nervy gamblers bank on the chance that bad luck will also scatter its bolts. Last week both lightning and luck struck with tragic redundance...
Lawrence Sheppard is a rich shoemaker (Hanover Shoes) who owns one of the finest standard-bred stud farms (Hanover Shoe Farms) in the U. S. Twice winner of the Hambletonian (Hanover's Bertha in 1930 and Shirley Hanover in 1937), Shoemaker Sheppard, like most rich sportsmen, wanted to win again this year and become the first owner to take the event twice in a row. Because he had no likely prospect, as he went the rounds of the Grand Circuit this summer Horse Owner Sheppard kept one eye on his own stable, the other on his fellow horsemen...