Word: township
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...
Opening day was a nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of Lithuanian to satisfy the parents who wanted the language taught. Otherwise, Worcester was all set; for the first time since the war, the city had enough teachers. San Francisco and Denver reported the same...
Along with many another prominent Oklahoman, Oil Millionaire Thomas Gilcrease takes quiet pride in having had an Indian grandmother. Last week he was honoring his heritage by giving fellow Tulsans a look at Indian history. The first public show of the six-year-old Thomas Gilcrease Foundation (in the township of Black Dog, on a hill overlooking Tulsa) consisted of 170 paintings of Indians and the West, including some by Frederic Remington, Robert Henri and the tireless 19th Century documentor of Indian life, George Catlin...
Bray, George August, Jr. of 706 Ash Street, Winnetka; New Trier High, Winnetka. Calhamer, Allan Brian of 518 North Spring Street, La Grange; Lyons Township High. Emerson, Kenneth of 806 West Main Street, Urbans: Urbana High. Finch, Frank Hershel, Jr. of 504 West Michigan Avenue, Urbana: University High, Urbana...
Gabler, Paul Warren of 456 Mary Place, Elgin; Elgin High. Josimovich. John Brigham of 1400 Sedgwick Street, Chicago; Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. Kelley, Donald Reed of 502 Grace Street. Elgin; Elgin High. Leavitt. Gordon Hodsdon of 522 North Spring Street. La Grange; Lyons Township High. Person, Conrad Erik of 6518 South Kimbark Street, Chicago: Hyde Park High Chicago...