Word: folke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountains. The fruit growers and ranchers in the Santa Clara Valley fought in vain against its construction. They wanted the water for their lands. In the southwest, where water is scarce and tempers are hot, a dam has never been built without an argument between agriculturalists and city folk...
...Road workmen set off unusually potent charges of dynamite near the dam on the day before the break. A few Los Angeles residents even hinted that the dam was intentionally destroyed by country bumpkins to spite the city folk. Officials pronounced this speculation ridiculous...
Professor A. T. Davison '06 of the Harvard Music Department will lecture Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Huntington Hall, Boston, on "Russian Folk Songs...
...mont was a hot-headed commander; there were a "Hundred Days" of trouble. Lincoln removed him after he had declared martial law and prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell out completely with Lincoln. Discontented folk in the North-there were many-urged Frémont to run against Lincoln in 1864. He declined for "the welfare of the Republican party...
...scheme in a statement that he is "not opposed" (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week several League straw voters were reported to have complained that "the atmosphere of a small town [Geneva] is stifling" and that Swiss society at Geneva has not appreciably bestirred itself to welcome or entertain League folk...