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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moonshine, instead of being made as it was before the enactment of the Volstead Act in a few crude, sequestered localities, is now made, as the daily discoveries of the Federal and State prohibition forces evince, in swamps, in mountain fastnesses, in dense thickets, on rivers, in attics, in basements, in garages, in warehouses, in office buildings, even in caves and other undergound retreats. In other words, moonshine is almost as ubiquitous as the radiance of the moon itself...
Senators Lenroot, Fess, Bruce urged that, if the transcontinental business were practically taken from the railroads and given to the ships, the railroads would be forced to raise their rates on all traffic, and even the interior Rocky Mountain states would lose in the end. Up spake keen Mr. Walsh of Montana; prodded the three Senators lustily for daring to imply that the business men of the Rocky Mountain states did not know what was good for them. At last, with 26 minutes left, Senator Gooding of Idaho rose for the final speech. Said...
...opponent of laissez faire methods, Dr. Keppel concludes with calm insistence that he is not talking high theory; furnishes proven examples of "consecutive study for its own sake" that adults might be more generally engaged in: a course at Bryn Mawr College for working girls; the Williamstown Institute; certain mountain schools in the South; a Danish folk school in Pennsylvania; Commonwealth College (for workers) at Mena, Ark.; a foremen's course in an industrial town: a study group of business executives; reading and business executives; reading and discussion groups at Amherst College; the projected education of enlisted...
Waskey and Reporter Rossman told how their sledging party had mushed upland for days into a trackless country of rivers and snow-buried canons, climbing to the top of the mountain range that slopes off north again to the Polar Sea. Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take...
...strange, compelling state of affairs rather than a story, based largely on actual spiritual phenomena in Mexico today, where Mr. Lawrence spent long months before climbing to a remote New Mexico mountain to write in bearded solitude. The pages are full of that Laurentian physico-mysticism, that preoccupation with endodermal emanations, the abdominal brain and sex pyschology, that moves many profoundly, puzzles others, and revolts the squeamish. The main characters are three: Kate Leslie, a sensitive Irish widow who has fulfilled her young womanhood and egotistically put it behind her; Don Ramon, Quetzalcoatl's triumphantly masculine semi-Indian high priest...