Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish her legitimacy...
...their only important enemy. Passenger pigeons were good to eat, fun for sport shooting, and almost entirely salable: their dried gizzards were thought to cure gallstones; their powdered stomachs were a nostrum for dysentery; and their feathers were in great demand for use as ticking. During the 1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought...
Wild Side. Back in the 1870s, the destitute Dreiser family was the talk of Terre Haute. Father John Paul was a religious fanatic who rarely worked. Mother Sarah was a warm-blooded mystical pagan who rarely worried. There were ten Dreiser children, most of them on the wild side, one of them, Paul Dresser, destined for fame as a songwriter. Lonely, nervous Theodore clung to his mother's skirts and suckled himself on fantasies of success. Restless to realize them, he dropped out of high school after one year, worked sporadically, somehow got into Indiana State University-again dropped...
Russians First. Though the Russians were the first commercial makers of plywood (they began packing tea in plywood boxes in the 1870s), American manufacturers have long since grabbed the world-production lead. The growing do-it-yourself market absorbs 8% of their output, and industrial uses account for another 15%, but half of the nation's plywood now goes into housing. By aggressive promotion, self-imposed quality control and imaginative research to develop new uses for plywood, the industry has boosted the amount built into the average new home from...
Flooding the Courts. Alarmed at the potential damage to state courts, the Supreme Court, beginning in the 1870s. sharply limited the right of removal to cases involving clearly unconstitutional state laws, such as a murder law prescribing a life sentence for whites and death for Negroes. U.S. district judges got in the habit of sending removed cases back to state courts for trial, and when a defendant's case was thus remanded, he had no right to appeal the federal judge's order...