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...endorsement: a good book needs no prize. The Carvers were Georgia crackers, pre-Civil War era. By "civilized" or "modern" standards, they were poor whites-but not trash. Their simple life was as hard, as complicated, as any city folks' ; the same things happened to them, with less dis guise. Cean was the first to get married; she went only a few miles away, to Lonzo's cabin. It was a happy marriage, but they never once said they loved each other. To Lonzo that would have been like blasphemy, and Cean was too shy. Most of their...
...TIME'S issue of Aug. 21, a person signing herself Alma Jacobsen has a tirade against employers of so-called help. Why doesn't the dis- gruntled lady go back to the old country where she might find things more to her liking? My experience with the last three maids I had was-- one of them proved a bad character-two of them were thieves-all of them were so filthy in their rooms, that they had to be painted, papered and cleaned after they left. I always have treated my help as I would wish...
...mine guards slouched at their posts while strike pickets romped all over company property, bearing U. S. flags, singing, jeering the guards. One picket was shot dead by irate deputy sheriffs, three others were severely wounded, two dozen others slightly injured. Scores of boisterous strikers were arrested for dis orders. And still the strike spread. General Johnson headed into the vicinity of this disturbance last week when he went to Harrisburg to deliver an NRA "pep" speech. Taking Pennsylvania's labor troubles and the stiff-necked anti- union attitude of mine owners as his text, he cried...
...Having been for a time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered that the firm's books had been shipped to Paris. Oklahoma's Haskell saw his Long Island estate auctioned off, went back west to recoup his fortunes...
...into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin' you? I finds out that I didn't have anyt'ing to do wit' passing dis Eighteent' Amendment. ... I finds out dat none of my friends has anyt'ing to do wit' it. So I don't see how dey ever could have passed it in de first place...