Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trailer were stalled on a very steep grade in the Rushmore National Park. I had been stuck there all night and early in the morning there came bounding down the mountain two nattily dressed young men whom I later found to be employed on the memorial which is being carved on one of the lofty mountain peaks. One of them was the son of the sculptor himself* and he recognized our plight on the roadside and when he found out who we were he said, "Well, well, I have just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat...
...brow of scrubby Pine Mountain, five miles out the Franklin D. Roosevelt Highway from Warm Springs, Ga., the Herald Tribune's correspondent had sought out lanky Otis Moore to find how things were going on the 2,500-acre farm which the President bought while convalescing at Warm Springs in 1925 (TIME, Dec. 10). Manager Moore, father of five, reported the best crops in years, said the farm's two white and five Negro tenant families looked forward to a reasonably comfortable winter. The farm, which directly adjoins a New Deal homestead project, has never paid...
...prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree laws. This formality does not present many difficulties. How is the private citizen going to be prevented from receiving in his home, in his garden or in his fields a dozen, 100, 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 guests...
Charmed with their drowsy man-mountain, the Lilliputians rig up a conveyor belt to feed him, entertain him with a stage show in which a peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic...
Major incident of the last World Series was the altercation between Umpire George Moriarty and members of the Chicago Cubs, who said that he had abused, humiliated and demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...