Word: lumberjacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that Gray had been his accomplice, that he had killed both...
...Chicago last week, on trial for his life, Lumberjack Seadlund gave a fascinated jury the details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score...
...result either of hasty decision or of hasty preparation. Throughout his Western tour Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists...
...week the "mythologist" to whom he referred was presumably the giant, Antaeus, whom Hercules defeated by lifting him off the ground and strangling him. Even more justifiably, he might have compared himself to a mythical hero with whom his listeners in the Northwest would have been more familiar-the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, who spanned the Rocky Mountains in one stride, left lakes in his footprints and lit his pipe with fir trees...
...career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs that...