Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when U. S. tourists are in their inns this summer, the fault will be Mr. Collinson Owen's. Collinson Owen spent three months in the U. S. last year viewing the country rapidly and with alarm. He wrote a book published last week under the title King Crime (Henry Holt, $2.50), which contained the following thoughts...
Thomas Carroll and Holt Ross, A. F. of L. investigators, charged that: 1) "slavery in its most hideous form" existed in these camps; 2) workers were flogged with plow lines, beaten with pistol butts to maintain discipline; 3) men were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...Hollywood directors and The Squaw Man is his favorite picture. He made it first in 1913. eight years after William Faversham and William S. Hart played it on the stage, with Dustin Farnum in the hero's role. Four years later De Mille coaxed Elliot Dexter and Jack Holt through its sequences of sacrifice and agony. His feeling for his reiterative classic has now come to resemble that of an after-dinner orator for his favorite anecdote. Adroit, devoted and familiar, he squeezes its antique situations with enthusiasm and an understanding of talking picture technique...
...lively sideshow in U. S. education is Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. Its barker: President Hamilton Holt. Famed freak: a course in Evil, taught by Professor of Evil Corra May Harris (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). To the faculty of Rollins, reported Field & Stream last week, is soon to be added a Professor of Hunting & Fishing, who will teach the students "how to take the greatest possible pleasure from the wild ... to know the peace and beauty of woods and lakes where the game is abundant, to appreciate the dull loneliness of burned forests where all life has been killed...
Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...