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Word: mountaineerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the early autumn of 1913, the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to guide the Federal Reserves bill through Congress and court the youngest of the President's three daughters. Because he, a widower with six children, was twice her age, he laid away his affection for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Simple Ceremonies | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

The mountaineers, many of them in shirtsleeves, played accordions, dulcimers, banjos, guitars. They sang, as they had heard their parents and grandparents sing, about Sourwood Mountain, turnip greens. old coon dogs, Napoleon Bonaparte. Because many an expert believes that these are the rarest of U. S. folksongs, cameramen were present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Traipsin' Woman | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

In the excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Henry Suzzallo, 58, president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching; of heart disease; in Seattle. Son of Italian immigrants, he became president of University of Washington in 1915, was ousted eleven years later in a celebrated clash with Governor Roland Hartley who. resenting an old difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

"Maristan Chapman" (Wife Mary Ilsley and Husband John Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Shadows | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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