Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope, Ark. and New Orleans...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
Died. Charles Edward ("Ed") Ballard, 63, oldtime hotelman, gambling house and circus proprietor of French Lick, Ind.; from a bullet fired by his onetime Partner Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander of Detroit, who next shot himself; in Hot Springs, Ark...
Music's great human-interest story ten years ago was that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...Ozark Hills near Rogers, Ark. is the base of an uncompleted pyramid which was intended to be a hermetically sealed, steel & concrete structure 130 ft. high, and to house documents and relics of the present U. S. civilization for the benefit of future archeologists. Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below...