Word: crom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brian Kilmartin, bald, bony, hawk-featured tenant farmer on the hills above the village of Crom; his sons Michael and Martin, and Martin's newlywed wife Mary, are the principal characters. The story starts the year before the famine when the blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water...
Mexico's sleepy old CROM (Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor), whose head, Luis Morones, is a good friend of A. F. of L.'s William Green, revived sufficiently to snipe at Leader Toledano as a "Communist." This has been common Mexican talk ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough...