Word: cumberlandism
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...steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail-road car") from Cincinnati to Cumberland...
...dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature a swimming pool in the lawn. Seven miles away from Weirton stands the ivy-covered courthouse of New Cumberland, W. Va., which supplies Weirton with whatever it has in the way of municipal authority outside of uniformed Weirton Company police. Last week, both the Lodge and the courthouse made news of different sorts...
News from New Cumberland Court House concerned National Labor Relations Board's hearings on charges brought against Weirton Steel Co. by C. I. O.'s Steel Workers' Organization Committee. Among the 6,479 cases which N. L. R. B. has handled, this one stood out because Weirton Steel Co. and its board chairman have long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge...
...nine Christopher is accused of trying to assassinate the infant Princess Victoria. The real gunmen are two Cumberland spies, one of them Christopher's father. Christopher runs away, is found by a peasant who sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother...
Back in England after a trip around the world, with a stopover in the U. S., Christopher poses as one of the Cumberland conspirators to worm his way into their headquarters in a remote Welsh castle. There unexpectedly he meets the Duke of Cumberland, a fiendish Frenchwoman who turns out to be his grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means...