Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replied a young fellow who was writing in a log...
Rule 1. The candidate must have a solid American background-as humble as possible. As birthplace, a log cabin is best, a farm nearly as good, the combination practically irresistible. For parents, the watchword is poor but honest. In the family background, a horse thief is fatal, a millionaire nearly...
...actually born in a log cabin. His father, Lemuel Bricker, came from a hardy line of farmers who landed in the U.S. from the Palatinate in about the year 1830. His mother, Laura King, was of English-Scotch-Irish ancestry. Neighbors always referred to the Brickers and Kings as "hard-sense" people...
...Elizabeth, Jacob Donner's wife, for a meal. The man was just returning with a leg of Elizabeth's husband. "At the sight of the rescuers, he tossed the now unneeded leg back on the butchered corpse." Jacob Donner's children "were sitting upon a log, with their faces stained with blood, devouring the half roasted liver and heart of the[ir] father. . . ." None of the elder Donners touched...
Died. Frank Orren Lowden, 82, onetime Governor of Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant...