Word: valparaiso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valparaiso, Ind., a relief investigator turned in his reports on applicants: Excerpts: 1) Man with ulster on his stomach. 2) Couple breaking up home, friends helping. 3) Man has diabetes and is insulated twice a day. 4) Man recently had operation, but is able to hold any position he assumes. 5) Man hit by automobile-speaks broken English...
...prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
Married. Mrs. Emily Flamm Gilchrist, 70, who seven years ago inherited $2,000,000 from her lumberman husband, William A. Gilchrist; to Roe Wells, 50, $25,000-per-year vice president of Doughnut Corp. of America; in Valparaiso, Ind. Said he: "Mrs. Wells and I have agreed to pool our interests and carry on. We shall be very happy working together...
Over Alabama, Major Lewis A. Dayton, piloting an army plane, waved his hand. Behind him Private Frank Strozier saw the wave. The major flew on, landed at Valparaiso, Fla. aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...
Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...