Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Chicago's unresting Goldblatt Brothers, who recently capped their merchandising careers by buying the old Davis Store from Marshall Field (TIME, Sept. 14), acquired as general manager a distinguished U. S. fighting man. From Fort Sam Houston, Tex. to be executive vice president of the Goldblatt stores went Major General Frank Parker, 64, wartime commander of the First Division, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal with two silver star citations for gallantry in action, the French War Cross with three palms and the Italian Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Commander of the French Legion...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...
...FORT U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...
What happens in the woods and rivers during the journey, in the fort during the siege, and in the Huron camp after the fort has fallen, is a complicated triangular contest for life & death between three groups, representing three irreconcilable loyalties. Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon) and Colonel Munro are trying to beat the French; Magua (Bruce Cabot), renegade Huron scout, is trying to get himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture...