Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous issue I notice that you referred to George F. Temple, father of Movie Actress Shirley Temple, as being manager of this bank's Santa Monica office. This is incorrect. Mr. Temple lives at Santa Monica but is in charge of California Bank's office at Washington Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, a district in which all the major motion picture companies maintain distributing offices. California Bank is one of the large local metropolitan banks with 55 offices in Los Angeles city and county, the Santa Monica office being situated in the outlying beach community of the same...
Similar sequences of conception and storm produce babies with cleft palates in Maine, babies with uncompleted spines (spina bifida) in Vermont, babies with genital defects in the U. S. Northwest...
...imperfect men drafted for the War. The State of Washington showed the greatest proportion of dead malformed infants. Proceeding eastward the traced of these dead babies "can be traced beginning in Colorado, passing through Kansas, spreading to include the Great Lakes region and ending in New England, where Vermont presents the highest rate. When we proceed north beyond the regions of cyclones and to a maritime type of climate, Newfoundland for instance, the rate drops." Southern States where the climate is equable, have a negligible number of malformation births...
Analysis of draftees showed the difference between men born in the North and in the South. Stormy Maine and Vermont presented five times as many cleft palates as did bland Arkansas and Arizona. Genital defects were excessively high in the Northwest. Testicular defects formed a track from Montana to Iowa, hypospadias from Montana to Illinois. Hermaphrodites were more common in the Northwest. Spina bifida, on the other hand, was apparently high at both the northeastern and the northwestern extremes of the U. S and in addition, formed a track from Nebraska through Missouri and Tennessee to South Carolina...
...Only State not carried by Roosevelt in the poll: Vermont with 53% anti-New Deal...