Word: lowlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning forward over his broad...
...Benito Mussolini in Rome last week flashed a report from Addis Ababa. Italy's active Viceroy of Ethiopia, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, reported he had just made a swing around recently-conquered Southern Ethiopia with a guard of 50, received without incident the homage of thousands of lowland Ethiopians who traditionally hate the highlanders of whom Haile Selassie...
...most of his life. His talent was early recognized. He worked very hard, made a great deal of money, kept little of it. Because of his fondness for painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans Hals into a lowland Cellini. He is important because, while his greater contemporary Rembrandt was a universal genius who might have lived in any country, Hals was first & last a Dutchman, content to record beautifully the smug unimaginative faces of the clays of Holland's greatest prosperity...
...clear windless night last week when the temperature hovered near freezing, an airplane skimmed back & forth, back & forth across a lowland field in eastern Wisconsin. From midnight until 5 a. m. the plane continued its lonely patrol at loo ft. altitude, barely missing the tamarack trees bordering the field. At dawn it flew away, to return another chill, cloudless night...
...acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...