Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of South Dakota faces the fact that some 35% of his constituents are on relief. The Governors of New Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Utah and North Dakota must provide relief for 20% to 25% of their people. The most fortunate of all Governors, in New Hampshire and Vermont, count more than one out of 20 of their people destitute. Yet the new year's grief for Governors will consist less of the magnitude of unemployment than the lack of means for providing relief...
...Legislature. An amendment to the State Constitution advocated by Senator Norris and adopted at the last election will do away with Nebraska's House and Senate, pre sent her in 1937 with one House of 30 to 50 members - the first unicameral Legislature in the U. S. since Vermont gave up hers...
First time that a doctor recognized infantile paralysis as a separate disease was in England in 1784. First known case in the U.S. was in 1841. Vermont had the first U.S. epidemic, with 132 cases, in 1894. In 1907 and 1908 New York City had 2,000 cases, 130 deaths. In 1916 occurred the nation's worst epidemic of the disease. New York City had 8,928 cases, of whom 27% died. That year 7,130 children died of infantile paralysis in the U.S. In 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted the disease. In 1931 Brooklyn was terrified...
...named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
...minimum of fustian. She nervously stabs cigarets into ash trays, gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...