Word: four
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Everyone knows the data of American prosperity which have become commonplace. There was one motor car for every eight inhabitants, one radio set for every four inhabitants, one telephone for every three. . . .* Suddenly this beautiful scene collapsed and we had a series of black days. . . . Black days followed black days and prosperity was replaced by long lines of unemployed waiting for soup and bread in the great American cities. . . . From that day we also were pushed into the high seas, and from that day navigation has become extremely difficult...
...Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely...
...HOUNDS RAN : Four Centuries of Foxhunting-Edited by A. Henry Higginson& #151;Huntington Press ($25).- Though it is usually better to give than to receive, even at Christmas, if you have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology...
...effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
...vent Mississippi graduates from practicing any other State. Governor Bilbo rein stated medical teachers, gave the new head of the faculty (approved by A. M. A.) a raise. The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States in its meeting three weeks ago suspended Mississippi's four colleges, barred their representatives from participation in Association business. Mississippi students transferring to other colleges will get no credit, will have to take examinations anew. Hardest hit are medical students, for after their two-year course at Missis sippi they must transfer, finish elsewhere...