Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Parley. With high hope John Farmer watched the Governor of his State start for Washington to see the President. At the White House they assembled: Governors Caulfield of Missouri, Emmerson of Illinois. Leslie of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, Conley of West Virginia, Pollard of Virginia, Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of Iowa, Reed of Kansas, Erickson of Montana. Republican Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky wanted to attend but did not dare leave his state lest Lieutenant Governor James E Breathitt. a Democrat, exercise executive authority to make political appointments. Governor Sampson sent Republican Senator John Robsion as his proxy. Governors Horton...
...contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, which voices professional contempt for Macfaddism, commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant...
...rebellious Parahyba State Deputy who has been waging civil war in the interior of Parahyba for five-and-a-half months (TIME, Aug. 11). Joao Pessoa lay in his coffin eleven days and nights and none dared bring him home for fear that the arrival of his coffin would start riots in the chief cities of Parahyba. Joao Pessoa was buried last week, not in Parahyba where he lived, or in Pernambuco where he died, but in Rio de Janeiro, 1,200 mi. removed from the scene of the Pessoa-Pereira conflict...
...Hitchcock, F. S. Skiddy von Stade Sr. and other fathers and an occasional mother played against the Meadow-Larks. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. grew up and went to War. For a while there were no Meadow Larks. Then the second Hitchcock boy, Francis ("Frankie"), was big enough to start.* When he was going to school in Aiken, S. C. his mother sent him mallets and balls enough for two teams. They played on bicycles on a red clay field. Later Frankie had a hard fall that ended his riding for the time, but the boys who had played with him, still...