Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico's Clyde Tingley, Mayor of Albuquerque, will have his friend Douglas Fairbanks on hand on New Year's day to help inaugurate him Governor. Born in a log cabin near London. Ohio, he failed to graduate from high school, worked on a railroad section gang. Later he worked for the Wright Brothers who were experimenting with flying machines, finally went to New Mexico and turned his talents to politics. Last May Albuquerque voted on recalling him as Mayor, decided against it, 6 to 1. His winning campaign slogan: "I ain't going to quit saying...
...Last of the Hill-Billies," a skit by H. I. Phillips, New York Sun columnist, showing a cabin full of mountaineers taking potshots at agents, theatrical, not revenue, who have come to kidnap the last of the mountain musicians for the radio and stage...
...miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
...rent planes, for the use of its members, from the Inter-City Airlines at East Boston, which company has agreed to let the club use its planes at special reduced rates. The planes that will be made available to club-members include: Aeronca, Fleet Trainer, Fairchild Warner 22, Waco Cabin, and possibly Fairchild Cabin...
...first three. Then for the first time in his life Upton Sinclair had a little luck. He got a publisher to send him out to Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result was The Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted him on the commission which laid the groundwork for the Meat Packing Law of 1907. Sinclair refused, but kept the pot boiling to such a pitch in magazine articles that President Roosevelt testily wrote...