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During August and September thousands of horses in fields and race tracks in many parts of the U.S. drooped their necks, banged their heads against the ground, tried to run on their sides, collapsed on the turf. In Massachusetts alone 200 horses died, victims of equine encephalomyelitis. Entirely different are...
Died. Willis Ray Gregg, 58, famed meteorologist, since 1934 chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau,* which he entered 34 years ago; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago.
In June 1935, Franklin Roosevelt announced: "I have determined that we shall do something for the Nation's unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put...
¶Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Nedayr: the $35,000 Arlington. Classic (for three-year-old thoroughbreds); defeating among others the co-favorites, Stagehand and Menow; at Chicago's Arlington Park. By his victory, Nedayr, a 14-to-1 shot, became the latest claimant to the evanescent three-year...
The WPA-Workers' Education project educates workers in their spare time. Across the country 60,000 laborers attend classes before and after hours in mining camps, sugar-beet shacks, cotton warehouses, union halls, construction sheds. Last week 18 State supervisors of WPA-WE reported to Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis...