Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blond, fattening, ruddy man of 43 who received her summons had a bitter and significant story for Congressman Martin Dies. That worthy and his co-committeemen could have read the story at any time since 1937, when Fred Erwin Beal told all in his book, Proletarian Journey. But a detour for Prisoner Beal from North Carolina to Washington made more headlines for Mr. Dies, focused national attention on an episode which shamed U. S. Communists long before Joseph Stalin signed with Adolf Hitler...
Fred Beal is a Yankee who turned radical during his boyhood in the mill-town of Lawrence, Mass. His journey down the Marxist road, took him to Gastonia, N. C., where in 1929, along with other northern Communists, he organized and led a bloody textile strike. In a raid on union headquarters, Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...great U. S. writers (Henry James and T. S. Eliot) had paid to England in the past. W. H. Auden (rhymes with applaudin'), whose search for noonday truth took him to Iceland in 1936 (Letters From Iceland), then to Spain during the Civil War, then to China (Journey to a War), last week had taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from the "muddle" in Europe; a general realization that violent revolution is as impotent as violent war. Said he: "In America...
Coach Skip Stahley and his Yardling football warriors are seeking their second victory in three starts today as they journey to Andover to meet the Blue and White eleven. The Freshmen lost to Exeter 20 to 14 and defeated Worcester Academy 19 to 0. The academy team is undefeated...