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...With a Hoe. Ambrose Bierce once told Edwin Markham that The Man with the Hoe would one day kill him. Instead the poem made Poet Markham $250,000 before he died (of natural causes) at 87. It also made him the idol of a small army of would-be biographers who have besieged Son Virgil Markham, a mystery writer, for the privilege of writing the poet's life. Each claimed that Poet Markham had authorized him to write his official biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Though a skilled laborer can work fast enough to earn $14 a day at it, President W. W. Hall of Idaho College, after an all-day, back-breaking job with the short-handled hoe, earned only $1.25. Faced with more than 70,000 weedy beety acres, the Governor offered as much as a week off .with pay to any State employe,who would turn to. To meet the crisis, WPA projects in all beet-growing communities were abandoned, able-bodied reliefers were drafted. Holidays were declared so that tradesmen could help. They did their best, but to farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crisis in Beets | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Hall, B.; Hewitt, J. W.; Harrison, R. C.; Hinners, D. G.; Hoe, E. L.; Holmes, E. B.; Houghton, A. N.; Humphrey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

...wise to her co-star's propensity for stealing scenes, neatly takes the picture away from him. Rooney cannot sing, but Judy Garland can, and proves it pleasantly with such sure-fire numbers as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones; a new tune called Hoe Down; and a misfit: Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

While conducting their own experiments, Army ordnance officers are intently watching operations at American Fork & Hoe Co. (of Cleveland, Ohio), where steel shells are actually being made for the Canadian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steel to the Breech | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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