Myth That GOP Bosses Fight Dewey Spread by DA's Men
Arundel, Martin
Myth That GOP Bosses Fight Dewey Spread by DA's Men Rocketfellers,Whitneys,Reids Build Prosecutor's Compaign Chest By Martin Arundel «IJ?STER TOM DEWEY, Owosso (Michigan's) cello...
...The spectacular growth of large cities, which has been striking characteristic of our national eXpansion, may be vasUy affected hy the pop u I a t ion changes which are going on...
...He made deals, got light sentences, protected sod coddled material witnesses and other small fry until they broke down and gave him all they knew...
...Four years ago on May 5, Bruno Mussolini had sufficient thrills from the sight of natives' WpocTsprouting up like flowers," and Italy brought "civilization" into Ethiopia...
...TAC, the magazine published by the Theatre Arts Committee, announces the formation of a committee of twenty-six "prominent persons" to sponsor a campaign to obtain Federal aid for the theatre.- Mass meetings are being held and petitions are being circulated by this ' committee...
...increase of age ratio and decrease of city bil'Ul- rate to rural birth rate-are · of . vast significance as affeeting the future of the nation...
...It created new forms, of playwriting and new methods of production...
...In 1930, 17,587,354 families — 58.8 "per cent of the total famj^es—had no children under 10 years of age, and 11.593.871 — 38.8 per cent— had none under 21...
...It was as loud as the New Masses ami "the Daily . Worker in its condemnation of "imperialist war," meaning, of course, the actions of England and France—never Hitler's Germany or—forgive the blasphemy!—Russia...
...But these were the exception rather than the rule...
...Davis got off with a year in jail, ?erved in various, houses' on Long Island and White Plains...
...eight amount to 195 per 100,000-Which would mean an increased j mortality this year from these causes of 253.500...
...Yes, these are the ostensible objectives of the movement...
...Not merely the quantity of people, but their habits, their characteristics, their purchasing power, their environment...
...r (' ANOTHER of the young Master's sorties into the ** underworld, and a particularly smelly one, was his action in handling the restaurant racket...
...In the eight years from 1921 to 1928 inclusive, 2,200,000 more babies were born than in the subsequent eight years, ending with 1936...
...The largest staff he's ever directed is his present one of 250 people...
...The starving theatre workers, no matter .how...
...The 1940 census, by including a measure of the extent of migration in a five-year period, will supply better information on this question than has heretofore been available...
...giant dirigible burnt to destruction in the U. S. •-.»-¦» • "BlE would like to whisper—in...
...You'll be buying red flowers to t aid war-crippled veterans staring the 23rd of this month, when ^ baddy poppy week begins...
...Second, he has a knack of snagging Headlines at psychological moments...
...Rice have been just as ready to fight for the right to include a speech by Ben Gitlow, Jay Lovestone, Norman Thomas, or Algernon Lee...
...equal signifieance in the future .of bnsineas...
...It was during this campaign that he gained national attention by calling Tammany district-leaders "intimates of thieves, pickpockets, white slavers, dope peddlers, and other scum of the underworld...
...CQI!~._ . ~ . they . are ' yoUng...
...The young Master "reluctantly consented" to make the "pec-pul's race...
...The birth rate w-hich in 1915 exceeded 25 babies per 1,000 population has dropped to 17...
...And it provided some kind of a livelihood for several thousands of unemployed workers—which was not entirely an asset to the effectiveness of the project...
...When the Grand Jury got no satisfaction from a Tammany district attorney, it sent the D.A...
...If, in another 25·~·ye.r8, there . are to be nearly ' tWiee as many people past 65 years . of age aa there' are now, business will change to fit the demaflda of the changing clientele...
...The birth rate in big cities is barely more than sufl^ent to maintain present population...
...In 1937, thia^death rate was down to 11.2...
...killers — cancer, cerebral hemorrhage, diseases of the heart, diabetes mellitus, appendicitisi suicide, homicide, automobile accidents — have been increasing their deadliness...
...pa.ndjng :population and resultaJit expanding values added safety to investments in land and ·buildings and commercial ventures...
...They were sincerely concerned in the effectiveness of the project, but the constant pressure upon them from above, below, and around them, was too much for -vacillating minds...
...they'd been repeated for fifteen or twenty years, • •*"'• • . WOW comes the;higbjisht of the career of the Lochinvar V* of the Law .-Halla, In .June, .1938, six months after he moved into the_ DJA'.'s office, Dewey indicted Jimmy Hines, powerful Tanimany overlord...
...It had got as low as 10.7 in 1933...
...During his campaign Dewey purposed to direct the affairs of New York State along the lines of a prosecuting attorney...
...In a little more than 35 years the deaths per 100,000 in these killers show a total net redaction of 542 per 100.000 population, which would mean a savi?g of 704.600 lives this year that would have been claimed under the 1900 death rate...
...More people are dying in the cities than in the country...
...The value of all things is dependens on .the demand, and the demand is dependent on the number of people who want a given thirig at a given time...
...Myth That GOP Bosses Fight Dewey Spread by DA's Men Rocketfellers,Whitneys,Reids Build Prosecutor's Compaign Chest By Martin Arundel «IJ?STER TOM DEWEY, Owosso (Michigan's) cello -flpflphane-wrapped- gift to reactionaries ivia New York eity poiice courts, owns one of the most'freakish careers ???e annals of U. S. politics...
...i In 1889 May-1 became^ world labor's international holiday, born oat of the A F of L's fight for Ihe eight-hour day...
...At this moment we would.have theatrical attacks on "imperi-alistwar," on United States preparedness, on the New Deal, on capitalist democracy, etc...
...reductiOn of youth ratio...
...Very many of the unemployed were bad actors and bad technicians...
...ASH on the barrelhead for ^ vote* is an old American custom—for some Americans...
...and the passage of'the Japanese Exclusion Act, May 26, 1884...
...jKShose five kids of Callender Pjft"be six years old come May S ^*nd best wishes to Emilie «tetera...
...1'he-'increasing average of people...
...To relieve the plight of the unemployed actors and stage technicians...
...Today, 'only 24 per cent of the population is actually supported by the farms, embracing a farm total of approximately 32.000,000 out of over 130,-000,000...
...Census > -death records show that the grast human enemies, such as tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox,, measles, scarlet fever, diphteria, influenza and pneumonia, erysipelas,, jmala-ria, bronchitis, diarrhea and enteritis, cirrhosis of the liver, maternity deaths, diseases df infancy and nephritis are jgradu-ally being conquered...
...Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia...
...to vote for repeal of the Wagner Act...
...Businesses catering . to upper-aged brackets will expand...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, who In the Not So Merry Month Of May aljHE provocative month of May ' ?» blew into town—whatever town you happen to be in—this week...
...Late in the same month the prosecutor accepted the GOP gubernatorial nomination...
...S. Red Cross, May 21, «1...
...they slaughtered their opponents...
...A Federal Theatre for the country is urgently needed...
...Firsf, there is his uncanny ability to get to know the "right people" and convince them that he is "their man...
...With'501 votes necessary to snare the romination, Dewey managers are given an even chance of rounding up the lacking 151 votes while the convention is still young...
...IiU...
...almost crippling the then struggling Food ^Workers' Union, and he did it by the same meaiis—lihlrfng the uni?n'to the Schultz mob...
...3»W 25 in San Francisco, -Whose Drama ? TACs Drive for 'Federal Theatre' Perils Fight for Real Nat'l Stage By Bryillon Fagin MOW that the Federal Theatre Project is dead, agitation has * begun for a Government subsidized theatre to replace it...
...In 1864's May they ta?ed the first American soldier inArlington Cemetery (May 13...
...Some of these leaders were merely political commissars who took advantage of the general chaos and disorganization in depressed America to capture the theatre as a tribune from which to shout ideological slogans...
...Poll Tax II...
...But, of course, it never would have come to a fight in such a case, because the Living Newspaper containing such a speech would never have reached the production stage...
...Next came the Saturday Evening-Post to help the cause along, followed by the many "fact" detective magazines...
...The charge was that of being the pplitkajliroteqtprof the Dutch Schultz mob's numbers rackets...
...And during the 1938 drive for governor, he was endorsed by the Coughlinites...
...A set of good white teeth, a broad grin, and wavy black hair are component parts of a formula for movie stars, perhaps, but these are all Dewey can offer as qualifications for the presidency...
...It might be well to mention some of the methods employed in gathering evidence by the Frank Merriwell effthe criminal courts...
...Trustworthy" men who had never had any-real connection in the theatre were preferred to good actors or directors who happened to be Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, or simply not interested in politics...
...But "busting" the restaurant racket brought thousands of "word salaams from editorial sanctums, 'After he had convicted Luciano of being top guy in the prostitution racket, editorial writers and columnists started the young Master, on his real fame...
...J**y 11, if you live in New York...
...they browbeat the "liberals...
...deserving, will be overlooked in favor of mobs of amateurs who believe that what the "line" says at any given moment is gospel truth...
...Twenty-five years ago May -meant the sinking of thg Lusitana (May 7...
...Little Lochinvar A MAZING even in American pol-itics...
...Among the plays that were produced many had no excuse for existing except that of crude propaganda...
...The states which have a birth rate in excess of 20 are New Mexico...
...It proved that millions of Americans were hungry for legitimate entertainment...
...Despite a grejst increase in total population during that time, the actual baby crop dropped from over 2,621.00 in 1921 to 2,203,000 in 1937...
...the founding of i&e-U...
...IF IT were not for the decrease * in the national death rats, the deaths this year would have exceeded ' the . births alld, with9ut immigl'ations, our population wou.ld . already have reached its peak...
...leI:tive customers resulted in a eonstant expansion of business because the optimism of pioneer bUliness men was 'lnspired by the a/llilt8.Jlee· ofa growing' elientele...
...So, between the two groups of killers, there is a net saving of lives this year amounting to 451.000...
...On the pretense—"always ? guy to help people clean their houses" —of wiping out racketers in, the Waiters' Union, Master Dewey grabbed the union's books and let the impression get around, that the Waiters' organization was dominated by the Dutch Schultz mob...
...Editorial writers looking for Republican "white hopes" began to write of Dewey as gubernatorial timber for 1938, presidential possibility for 1940...
...Never mind the comments...
...Business will- depend more for i~ expansion on improvement in the standard ' of living and the exereise of greater selectivity in finding its markets...
...Should they get it we shall hear numerous oratorical bombs explode, in the guise of "plays...
...Before swinging into his current campaign, it might be well to glance at Master Dewey's abilities...
...His first trick, sometimes legal, WS to raid the offices of any organization suspected of crime and snatch all books and papers pertaining to th^t organization...
...In the accompanying article, written by a former Transradio News staff man, Dewey's background and backers are revealed...
...To .establish a national theatre to make the country theatre-conscious and to keep alive American drama...
...The combination of the decreased ratio of youth ahil the prolongation of life is reciting in a constant increase in ihe average age of people...
...If it was She, principle of civil liberties that was at stake would Mr...
...It was loud in denouncing any theatre or any actor willing to participate in a performance for the benefit oi the Finns...
...For instance^ in 1937_, 52.7 per cent of the deaths occurred in cities...
...Such a theatre must function as" unpolitically as the scientific bureaus in Washington...
...This changed condition may effect such . industries as milk production and distribution, recreational supply businesses...
...They placed their men in strategic positions...
...The movement is under way...
...It might be of interest to the young Master's campaign managers to learn that Dewey's accusations were household knowledge around-New York...
...But eight other common...
...The arrogance and stupidity of .their tactics played right into the hands of the reactionaries in Congress who were opposed to any form of socialized enterprise...
...Michael Blank-fort's and Mike Gold's Battle Hywn was such a "ulay...
...AROUND Center Street and to newsmen who have *"* covered his career, he's considered a bore but one of the most adept newspaper space-grabbers in the business...
...An Increasing number of pros...
...Tuberculosis, which . used to take 200 lives each year Out of a 100.000 population, now -takes less than 55...
...The American people are hungry for good, honest entertainment, at prices they can afford to pay, and there are many competent actors, directors, and stag*.technicians who need work...
...The vaat increase of increment through 150 years has been a direct result of population growth...
...His good chances for the Republican nomination reveal the bankruptcy of the GOP...
...the invention of the fountain pen, ;JUy 20, 1830...
...people changed conditions...
...Faustas and Murder in the Cathedral...
...And the money to put him over has come from the same source that financed his 1938 gubernatorial campaign—the Rockefellers, Mills, Reids, and other "first families"—in conjunction with a few "leading" families from other parts of the country...
...The zeppelin Hindenburg was "taken out of the second world star, about two and one-half years-before it started: on May 6, 1937, Abe...
...The publicity of his resignation for the cause mentioned supplied excellent ammunition to the anti-social forces...
...The National Association of Manufacturers is ready to elect its men to Congress in December through the modern version of paying for votes: collecting huge slush fund* to be spent in publicity for the benefit of favored candidates...
...Female white btf> bies born now have a life "expectancy of 62.65 years as compared with 51.08 in 1900...
...It would have been better for the theatre if these had been given some other kind of work to do...
...1 taeket-buster...
...Another cute trick in the same investigation was...
...Dewey got his evidence by his usual "psychological third degree...
...The most vital indicator of the future is the birth and death record of the Census Bureau...
...heir distribution and their ways of living...
...All turned it down...
...he famous little exchange of |Z4 in beads for a couple of square miles of dirt took place just 314 years ago on May 6. The land, once known as Mana Hat-tan, has multiplied in financial "falne, but a couple of cynics can be found to "remark that the Quakers were gypped in the transaction...
...Mechanization of industry has re<Iuced the proportionate demand for unskilled labor...
...j One member of the NAM told newspaper correspondents that an assessment ipian had been worked out by the orpanization under which firms were to be "taxed" in proportion to the amount of business they,did...
...There is danger that in the clamor for a tribune from whieh Comrade Browder and his noisy followers can shout their slogans, the real issue may be lost...
...Those who were not with them were ruthlessly exterminated...
...But as it is, the peak may not be...
...The loan shark racket, if Master Dewey- is still interested, Is now,'being operated in full force in New York County...
...Cities have not expanded their boundary lines as rapidly as the radins of ·the population has been extended...
...Was it absolutely essential that Comrade Browder's speech remain in the show...
...i Read TAC since its inception and note the .ideology that animates its editorial policies...
...Later, when the "line" changes, and it is bound to change, other slogans will be shouted...
...ti /^ENSUS records contain' con^ vincing evidence- of the- prolongation of human life...
...Dixie Davis...
...while 47.3 per cent occurred in rural areas, but 48.4 per «*nt of the births occurred in the "cities as against 51.6 per cent in ?rural areas...
...It has supported Herman Shumlin and the-"progressive" New York County Committee of ALP...
...He was allowed to see his sweetheart, showgirl Hope Dar?, whenever-he felt in the mood...
...Census records reveal the migration resulting from the development of the great frontiers: the rise and decline of industries and the regional effects cf drought and depression...
...Mayor LaGuardia was running for re-election, and Master Dewey was prevailed upon to be the Mayor's running mate in a "clean-up" campaign...
...In 1900, 17.$ persons out of each 1,000 popjc|ation died annually...
...matic-eonditions, sources of rrilw materials, an{l wage...
...The states which have a birth rate of less than 15 are Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York...
...But the strategic part of...
...ALL business will gradually . , change in response to these i'bese, great cllange9--4!lowing up: of population growth...
...Diphtheria-is almost whipped—down from "40 to two...
...U. S. Control Shifting to Rural Dwellers, Aged By IRVING B. ALTMAN Editor of Dynamic America 1UIOST important in any nation are its people...
...Some decentralization of · industry is taking··place, and there ar Tewional shifts · dependent on cli...
...it was-a sequence of militant speeches and poorly staged tableaux, similar to'the "agit-prop" skits which had previously helped to ruin the Workers1 Theatre movement...
...I * * * i [ (STANDING out like a sore thumb is the way the young '¦*»• Master plucked the reputation of the republic's No...
...tunitiell for better ' living...
...And -when you live around Union Square and are suddenly -given a certain amount of -power over the" taxpayers' money you assume that the revolution has come and that now is the time for all the boys and girls to establish themselves as the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...packing, turned jrcr the evidence to Governor Lehman, and demanded especial rackets prosecutor...
...the lowest possible tones, so "that no somnolent man may be disturbed—about the nature of May 18...
...May 18—quiet in the hflfik, . please—is International ^ood Will Day...
...Georgia, , Idaho, Louisiana...
...In other words, it has a record of serving the same interests which helped to destroy the Federal Theatre Project...
...Arizona...
...That the tory organization in this country should be forced to accept as its standard hearer in this' crucial year a man who has no experience, knows nothing of foreign affairs, has had no training in the social sciences, and is no more than the result of a freak career in one borough of one city...
...Rice is both an able playwright and a competent director, but as a political tactician -he proved himself a dud...
...Last December the- young Master "reluctantly consented" to make the "pee-pul's race" for the GOP presidential nomination...
...Fifty years later — 1930 — they were only 9.3 per cent...
...Then there is the increase of part-time suburban' fAr m i ng, whieh is becoming a big industry More improved roads and more automobiles have to live farther arway from their work...
...The fact that this was...
...AND now the boys and girls are out to campaign for another Federal Theatre, and TAC is their mouthpiece...
...the FTP was in its control by a group of "Left" politicians who ran roughshod over the rank and file...
...Immigration brought hopdes of unskilled workers to industrial centers...
...Merit, and merit alone, will determine its ultimate endurance...
...In his own campaign for D.A., Dewey accepted support from American Stalinists...
...During the same campaign", some Dewey stalwart injected an anti-Semitic issue...
...Labels were created: "Trotskyfst,' "Fascist," "Red-baiter...
...the only ones worth fighting for can be trusted to establish that Federal Theatre...
...He has never said much on any issue anywhere, but by employing such facile word-slingers as Irene Khun, Vilas Boyle, Hickman Powell, Harold Keller and Eliot Bell—all ex-newsman—to write his speeches and statements, he manages to convey to audiences that what he is uttering is of importance...
...As this is being written, GOP insiders concede Dewey 1 minimum of 350 votes for the Republican presidential nomination before the GOP convention- opens in -Phila-Sphia in June...
...an unemployment project for all American theatre workers was forgotten...
...the annals of whfch are jammed full of startling turns, is the career and success of Thomas E. Dewey...
...At 38» nine years after he entered public life as an •ufatant District Attorney—a job- always reserved uZfjmsag lawyer friends of party wh?elhorses—Master Dewey is leading all contenders for the job of "front ^jn" fn the coming Republican-led tory assault on New Deal social and labor legislation...
...1937—and citizens of New York County jumped at the chance to toss Tammany out of the D.A-'s post...
...It has seemingly never occurred to them that the people behind this movement are the same crowd that helped to -destroy the Federal Theatre Project...
...But no group which is committed to a political creed that the rights of its "gang" are...
...Analysis of the vast ?"?>n«ii5 rpfnrrls nn Amprii-afi nnnillation reveal not onlv the present status of our people, but portend future trends of great significance...
...Increased Vitalities resulting from these...
...Blanshard turned his leads over to - a Grand Jury then sitting...
...THE experiment of the FTP was the most exciting and heartening event in the whole history of the American theatre...
...It educated a public in the appreciation of good plays...
...they intimidated their fellow-travelers...
...The plight of America's unemployed theatre workers demands immediate attention...
...His legal knowledge is by no means extraordinary...
...is evidence of the deterioration of the ole parties...
...Then he made wholesale arrests of small jfry, and by getting them to "sing," he opened the road to higher-UDs...
...indication: In 1880, people aged 65 and over constituted $f per cent of our population ?pd in 1930 these ages constitutejli 5.5 per cent...
...And the birth rates in rural areas are higher than in cities generally...
...According to campaign expenditure reports filed with the New York Secretary of State's office, Dewey cash contributors were the Rockefellers and associates, Whitneys' Vanderbilts, Mills, Reids and other members of the "cream" of America's Sixty Families...
...Medalie, who had gijren Dewey his first public post as an assistant U. S. District Attorney and remains one of the young Master's dose advisors, recommended Dewey arid induced the various Bar Associations to second his recommendation...
...Only "good" boys and girls will be employed...
...And come to the fair...
...Not being oppressed by any sense of either decency or elementary morality, they blackened anyone who refused -to play the game their way...
...typhoid is i down from 36 to 2, and influenza and pneumonia combined are down from 200 to 110...
...In 1935 Paul Blanshard, then City Com-jBSsion%r of Accounts, came across damning evidence that linked Tammany higher-ups with numerous topflight racketeers...
...i> The advance of medica* science in the conservation of lift has been tremendous...
...It was neither drama nor spectacle...
...They made friends for the project...
...st,andards...
...Governor Lehman offered the job to Attorneys George Mcdalie, Emory Buckner, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and Charles H. Tuttle...
...THE role of the liberal fellow-travelers was not enviable...
...Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand P?cora declared a mistrial when Dewey- asked a question relating to the poultry racket That was in early September...
...o" That the tastes and mentality and feelings of those living beyond Union Square ought to be consulted—especially since Congress, by and large, still represents that taste and mentality— requires imagination and strategic acumen, neither of which the boys apd girls who had "seized" the project possessed in the slightest degree...
...the mob's mouthpiece, along with other key figrrrts "sung...
...ay 30, of course, is Memorial This Memorial Day's re-^Biwnis of the past will be but a ?gnor feature of the occasion.-^P* months ahead loom grimmer those gone...
...Out of Dewey's defeat by 65,000 votes-' in the gubernatorial campaign came-his boom for GOP presidential nominee...
...A' few months later the story of the "smashing" of the loan shark racket was blazoned in newspapers...
...Only such a' theatre can be called national, and only such a theatre can survive, for'it will have the support of the American public...
...a~ that time sh01lld be arQnnd ' 145,000,000...
...through llP'Per grades a~~ . .l!ijt~ , scjl.2.QI •. a'!!tUq...
...And to gauge the future of the nation it is important to know-where births and deaths are taking place...
...reac}!ed be!ore another . 20 or ·' 3O years and, according to present trenqs...
...From 4 population formerly preponderantly youthful we are emerging into a population of older people An...
...Since, he has been engaged in one of the most costly primary campaign tours on record...
...When offered the job, Dewey accepted with alacrity, protesting, of course, that he much • preferred to remain in private life...
...i*cdb»-ding to the figures of 1900 to, "1902, such a baby had a life ?xpef?aney of 48.23 years...
...As a matter of fact the most interesting productions of the Federal Theatre were those of plays that had either no propaganda value at all, or precious little of it, such as Orson Welles' Dr...
...According to the census statistics covering 1929 to 1931, a white'male baby born today has a life expectancy of 59.06 years...
...To smear unions further, he .seized, without provocation, the books of Local 3 of the Electrical Workers...
...M.LOn.!!'~.JlLPi1on.ihe...
...80- the city booster of the future . may . not put 80 ' mucn emp...
...Dewey squelched it, but the damage was done'.' '• '"' The young hopeful's- managers now claim that Communist support re-elected Governor Lehman...
...Alabama...
...From then on, unJellS trends change, there will be a gradual decline...
...Coincident with the sweeping decline of youth ratio, there has been taking place a reduction of the death rate...
...What is behind thg movement...
...The money raised will be used to drive for the election of aten pledged, first of all...
...Master Dewey's phenomenal rise to dubious eminence rests on two traits of character that are considered virones in his circles, and his ability to make them supple-i*ent each other...
...No doubt many theatre workers and liberal-minded lovers of the theatre have signed the petition because- they believe in these objectives...
...our peak pO'pulatilm...
...the field of business ' development may, therefWlCi.: ·ha~ . Il'clulle relationship to tiJwproapeet o()f a static condition in population...
...The U. S. Census Bureau's records show the transformation of the American people from a 95 per cent rural ratio to a major urban status...
...fhe closing days of the month commemorate such diverse events *JL.thS..ending of American occu-::Pation of Cuba, May 20, 1902...
...That the NAM has compiled one of the biggest election campaign chests in history and is using H lavishly to fight progressive nominees is the charge under investigation today by the Senate¦''Gbnt-tn it tee on Campaign Expenditures...
...the fact that by the provisions of the legislation under which the project operated even a "Trotskyist" was entitled to a job was deliberately ignored...
...T"'s,,.timidity- in...
...Elmer Rice, for instance, resigned his regional dictatorship because he was not permitted to include in a Living Newspaper he was producing a scene in which Earl Browder was making a speech...
...The wave of 2,200,000 excess babies, above normal production, shown.from . 1921 to 1928, is now mcving...
...An increased proportion of aged will affect taxation...
...There are indications that population swings to the cities for industrial employment in times of prosperity and back to the land in times of adversity...
...IN* 1880 children under five * years of age constituted 13.8 per cent of our population...
...The census shows not only how we shift, but how we live, work and die...
...elothing, food, houses, home furnishings, real estate, publications, education and government...
...Heading the young Master's contributors from "out of town" is Mrs...
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