Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GREEN WORLDS - Maurice Hindus -Doubleday, Doran...
When he was 14, Maurice Hindus left the little Russian village of Bolshoye Bikovo to make his fortune in the U. S. As it turned out, he made his fortune by periodic returns to his Russian village. In the years after the War, when most U. S. foreign correspondents were sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Moscow wishing they were in Vienna, Maurice Hindus went once a year to see how his old friends Boris the Cattle, Trofim the Hawk, Blind Sergey, their sons and their daughters were making out under Bolshevism. What...
...Maurice Hindus' father was a Jewish kulak, engaged with great resignation in liquidating himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds...
Thirty years later Maurice Hindus went back to Mount Brookville. Most of his friends were dead, the fine stands of pine and cedar were logged off, the best farms had gone to wrack, the farmers were getting 3? a quart for milk and were grumbling like Russians. The U. S., said Maurice Hindus, had an agricultural problem...
...work of the British-American party which last summer reached the peak of Nanda Devi, the highest summit ever climbed by man, will be outlined. The mountain, 25,660 feet in elevation, is located at the source of the Ganges river, and is considered by Hindus a "sacred mountain...