Word: caravaneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp dawn early last spring, seven clumsy, curious motor cars lumbered out of Beirut, Syria, while camels yawned. Big-nosed Levantine chauffeurs behind the wheels of sleek limousines laughed derisively as they whizzed past this caravan plodding East. Soon the caravan left the road and struck out into the desert, where limousines could...
...Author, Howard Phelps Putnam, 37, Yaleman, was brought up on a farm in Harvard, near Boston. Like his hero Bill, he has wandered. He first became known to literary critics for his "Ballad of a Strange Thing," which appeared in the American Caravan in 1927. After the publication of Trine in 1927 Epicist Putnam went West, lived in Santa Fe, became closely associated with New Mexico's connoisseur Senator Bronson Cutting. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Md., is interested in senatorial politics, is engaged in composing some of the major narrative portions of his poem...
...Three out of a caravan of 50 Koreans straggling across Manchuria reached Mukden alive. Said they: "Our comrades were butchered by Chinese troops...
...Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa Fe, N. Mex.. in the midst of Chinese jade, Mexican scrapes, Navajo rugs. He likes to play the piano, laugh and sing. Other books: Young Harvard, Grenstone Poems, The Beloved Stranger, A Canticle of Pan, Caravan...
...Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six hampers in the police station. Two army trucks were filled with prisoners, sent off to exile in West Africa. Four men were killed in the Plaza Espana when a mob attempted to rescue the caravan of exiles...