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Jonas Lauretz, mountaineer sawmiller, was a hard man and not a good one. A notable blasphemer, drunkard, cuckolder and seducer, he was a byword in the district, but his neighbors did not know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alpine Stock | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Tight Britches (by John Taintor Foote and Hubert Hayes; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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 »

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