Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Friday, October 8, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Friday, October 8, 1937

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Friday, October 8, 1937
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It was another quiet day at home for Mrs. Culp, who wrote in her diary only that Walter had done the marketing again and that she had gotten a note from her older sister Else saying she liked her new apartment in St. Petersburg.

So let’s look at a somber story from that day’s New York Times.

At the White House, the close circle of aides surrounding Presid…

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