Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
Bound up as it is with the history of Cambridge. Harvard will play a large part in the celebration which will take place during the summer months next year. It is probable that the early history of the founding of the College will form part of the historical pageant, although a definite announcement of the program itself cannot be made until financial support has been guaranteed...
...plans of the Cambridge committee are but part of the numerous celebrations of the Massachusetts Tercentenary, which will be held in every town and city of the state. The individual programs are being, scheduled to avoid conflicting dates, so that visitors next summer will be able to attend any or all of the various programs. The present understanding, is that the Cambridge pageant will be given in the Stadium some time in June...
...institutions, making room for 1,800 civilian prisoners from crammed Atlanta and Leavenworth. Already over 1,000 have been transferred to Ft. Leavenworth. Not transferred was famed Dr. Frederick Cook, North pole "explorer," "blue sky" stock salesman. A well-behaved inmate, he took no part in the riot last summer...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...