Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a big war conference last week on the Rapidan. To his mountain camp President Hoover took Secretary Hurley, Assistant Secretary Payne, Chief of Staff MacArthur, Chief of Engineers Brown, Quartermaster General De Witt and Congressman Will Wood (appropriations). The President ushered them into a room by themselves, told them they had to find ways & means of cutting Army costs. While they pondered snipping and trimming the military establishment, the President went outside, sat down under a tree, worked over the rough draft of the address he will give at Valley Forge on Memorial...
...dark and bloody ground of Kentucky grew darker and bloodier last week. Union warfare erupted in the Big Black Mountain coal mining district. Months of depression had seeded the rocky ridges of Harlan County for industrial trouble. With more than half the mines in the area closed down, organizers of the United Mine Workers of America circulated persistently among the jobless miners, exhorted them to unionize. Strikes followed. As bitterly opposed as ever to unionization were the politically powerful mine operators who hired small armies of deputy sheriffs to protect their property. Friction between miners, idle and sullen, and guards...
...Dalai Lama ordered an automobile and a Chinese chauffeur. To get it from Darjeeling to Lhasa, corps of coolies, 30 strong, were stationed along the mountain passes, where no roads exist, to carry the car when it could not be driven. Now other Tibetans can buy "devil wagons" without sacrilege...
...yards a hunting bow handled by someone who knows how is more deadly than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...
Prize find was a silvery ganoid fish, about a foot long, taken from the tumbling waters of a mountain stream. It has two mouths. Instead of scales it has what seem to be plates of silver. When the currents (which at times go 50 m. p. h.) are too fast for the ganoid, it creates a vacuum in its lower jowls, hangs on a rock by the suction and brakes itself with the plates of its silver armor...