Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of cases in which it must weigh the velvet provided by the New Deal for farmers against the cold marble of the Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned up as "friends'' in the person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned...
...with a psychiatrist, she goes out only at his urging, and then in heavy disguise. It is on one of her therapeutic excursions that Miss Rogers meets the nephew (George Brent) of a friend of the psychiatrist. After some involved negotiations, she accompanies Brent on his vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe with any man. Soon after Brent has seen her not only minus the disguise but minus most of her clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness...
March 15--Second Class downhill, Pinkham Notch, Appalachian Mountain Club...
March 29--Second Class downhill, Pinkham Notch, White Mountain Ski Runners...
...Lama. The book is filled with plausible explanations of international intrigue over Tibet, contains 64 unusual photographs. THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET-Harrison Forman - Longmans, Green ($3.50). More romantic record of the journey of a young U. S. airplane salesman in China who was attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts of vast gold fields that also lured Gordon Enders. Two of Harrison Forman's companions were killed by Chinese bandits. MARCH HARE-Elsa Smithers-Oxford ($3). Quiet autobiography of a native of the South African Republic who lived through the Boer War, several...