Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...
...Their Majesties' friend and Great Britain's U. S. banker, John P. Morgan, called off the grouse shooting at his Scottish moor, offered his Gannochy Lodge to the nation for a hospital...
...rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...
...late, great Edward Wyllis Scripps had three sons, James, John and Robert. Eldest Son Jim quarreled with his father and was packed off with a string of small papers, most of them in the northwest, which became the Scripps League. The Scripps League is now run by his two sons, strapping Edward Wyllis Scripps and lanky James G. Jr. The Scripps boys take themselves seriously, used to write a weekly bulletin called PEP for their staffs, have paid such low wages that once when a publisher begged a raise for a $28-a-week business manager, Jim Scripps wrote back...
...Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth. Daughter of William and sister of Bramwell, she loved the Army more than any man she ever met, long headed its work...