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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
...manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries of the new park (see map) reflect many compromises between private and public forest ownership...
...doughty Mr. Buck could not bring around the roustabouts. They preferred to believe A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead. who declared that Mr. North, having lapped the cream from the big cities, used the pay issue as an excuse to get off the road. The A. F. A. also charged that Mr. North was trying to get out from under a fiveyear, closed-shop contract which A. F. A. signed last year with the bankers with whom his ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts...
Because it annually sponsors American Education Week jointly with the Legion, and solicits the Legion's help to get more money for schools, the N. E. A. was highly embarrassed by this report. It hastened to disown Dr. Gellermann's thesis. Meanwhile, Legionnaires sprang to arms. Said Theodore Roosevelt, a Legion founder: "The study must have been made by a jackass." To Manhattan rushed National Commander Daniel J. Doherty to demand that the N. E. A. let him answer. Commander Doherty finally was given the floor at the convention's last business session. Said...
...when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath of old settlers, neighbors...