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...began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...
...interests were less controlling than race. But a large slice of the other Southerners whom Degler depicts as opposing slavery and secession have business class interests more in concert with rising Northern industrialism than with languishing Southern agrarianism. From Degler's portraits, Cassius Marcellus Clay of Kentucky, Hinton Rowan Helper (author of The Impending Crisis of the South, 1857) and Daniel Goodloe of North Carolina and Henry Ruffner of Virginia--citizens of the antebellum Other South--preached the same gospel of economic development that Henry Grady and the New South spokesmen would advance in the 1880s. In both cases, class...
...Nickel mountain. But he can only express himself by talking to drunks who wander in at three in the morning or by roaring up the mountain in his old pick-up, defying the curves, playing with death. He even loses the diner (his last touchstone) to a new helper. Henry is good, almost too good, so when his teen-age waitress, Callie, gets pregnant, he marries...
...Arabian oil company, he says, but because he likes the sound of the name. He has no monopoly on the trade. Some 20 similar organizations operate within West Germany. Like Aramco, many have advertised in newspapers, under the heading of "Family Reunification" or, more bluntly, Flucht helfer (Escape Helper). Lately they have become a center of controversy. East German authorities have pressured the West German government to crack down on the impresarios of escape. They claim that Fluchthelfer activities violate the spirit of detente and abuse the terms under which East Germany agreed to relax inspections on some major transit...
...first good helper I've had in a long time. Keep...