Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped from 20,000 to 70,000, Chicago's from 50,000 to 120,000, in the last five months. Direct relief rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from the city $5,404,000, by May 1 and no more State funds were...
...motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of several scenes that contained an "appeal to race prejudice." In Washington, during the Anti-Lynching Bill filibuster last winter (TIME, Jan. 24), it was picketed off a local screen...
...approximate distance a cannon could throw a shot. In the case of the 13 Original States it has been pretty well established that the three-mile strip is theirs; in the case of States like California the natural confusion and controversy are a hundred times confounded. Last winter, a special session of the California Legislature concerned itself with little else. For off Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Wilmington Beach in Los Angeles Harbor and up & down the California coast are pools of oil thought to be worth...
...inter-House athletic your characterized by seven per cent greater participation and 65 per cent less defaults than last, Lowell failed to break into the winning column in any fall sport, while Kirkland was winning both football leagues. In the winter, Bellboys triumphed in squash, the biggest House sport from the standpoint of participation figures, and in fencing...
Greatest addition to this year's athletic schedule was the soft ball league this spring, in which 171 men participated. Boxing, fencing, and wrestling, inaugurated this winter, drew 33, 18, and 44 men respectively...