Word: fors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For months Sheriff Sam Johnson vainly quizzed terror-muted hillbillies. At last an intercepted note furnished him a clue with which he wormed needful testimony from the girl and others. Five men, arrested last week, were held in separate jails to protect them from mobbery.
The sheriff's investigation revealed a medieval oligarchy in northern Arkansas. Two intermarrying, farm-owning clans on Dry and Cagin Creeks hold baronial sway over their hilly domain. With hickory whips and squirrel rifles they drive indigent, illiterate citizens to farm work at serf's wages. Claiming seigniorial "first right...
As disproof of their "backwardness," Arkansans point to Senators Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader, and Thaddeus H. Caraway; also to Major 0. Lee Bodenhamer of Arkansas, Commander of the American Legion. No veteran himself, Governor Parnell worked for Bodenhamer's candidacy, helped to insure his election at Louisville (TIME, Oct...
From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New...
On Aug. 3, 1918 Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from...