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Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...widow of Lucius W. Nieman, Milwaukee publisher, the fellowships are for the purpose of raising the standards of newspaper work. Response to the announcement of the fellowships in early January has been widespread...
...article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideas, but, as a problem, provoked widespread resentment, which also played into the hands of the Nazis. The reduction of university enrollments, which, by the way, set in two years before Hitler came to power, and which had been an unrealized aim of Republican educational policy, was clearly an answer to restriction of opportunity in society...
Typical was the condition last week of Tamaulipas State, where incipient outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...
Recent developments in the kitten situation indicate widespread public interest in the fate of the tiny feline received as a Valentine by Harold Thurston...