Hair powder fashion traced to ballad singers at St Germain
The passage notes that Seventeenth and Eighteenth century hair powder originated with ballad singers at the fair of St Germain. It says vulgar people adopted the look first, but then it spread to the higher classes as a fashion.
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Clearing House Certificates In Bank Holiday Plan
The Roosevelt administration moves to reopen banks under a four day bank holiday using clearing house certificates to replace currency. Hoover backs plan while Congress is summoned for emergency session on Thursday to authorize new measures.
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Bankers Prepare for Holiday Shutdowns Across Richmond
Banks plan four day closures with access to safety deposit boxes debated. Judges consider check payments for fines, while insurers predict smooth premium handling. Officials mull moratorium on debts and urge a special session to authorize it.
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John M. Miller, Jr
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Woman Held for Grand Jury in Bank Robbery Case
Mrs. Patey Hoffan lift 24 of Cleland was held for the grand jury on a bank robbery charge after a Kinon slice state. Clift, previously linked to a Newark nightclub murder, admitted waiting in a car near Waynesville Ohio last September while her husband James Clift and Howard Welle robbed a bank. Wells and Clift are already serving life terms for bank robbery.
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Mrs. Roosevelt Snips Red Tape in White House Move
The article notes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dramatically reducing formal red tape at the White House during her first day as mistress. Washington reports a startled atmosphere as traditional etiquette is described as shattered precedents and reorganized to facilitate action.
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Alabama Negroes Facing New Trial
In Scottsboro Alabama a new trial will begin in the red brick court house where seven young negroes once faced death. The International Labor Defense will file a motion for a new trial as the first step in the referenced case against the seven defendants accused of assaulting two white girls.
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International Labor Defense
Change of Venue Denied by High Court Reversal
The discussion notes a Birmingham venue shift denied by the United States Supreme Court reversal of death sentences. It recalls how Western cowboys adapted a Spanish kordl into corral and how the term broadened to mean detaining or holding someone.
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United States Supreme Court
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