Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of a band of 104 settlers, sallow, thin-faced Ethan Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...took home for luncheon, took for a swim, conferred with at length. A jolly time they had together, and on the second day of the Tugwell visit the President drove him and Mrs. Roosevelt to see an erosion control project on his 1,700-acre farm at nearby Pine Mountain...
...officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it. When the expected order came for all Armenians to evacuate the valley, Bagradian had made his plans. Night before the Turks came to clear them out, 5,000 Armenian villagers moved up to the heights of Musa Dagh. They expected nothing but death, but they preferred...
...over, but a night sortie captured the guns. For 40 days the Armenians held out. Both they and the Turks knew famine would get them in the end, but the Turks' military honor was at stake: they planned a final annihilating stroke, with regulars, machine guns, mountain artillery. Bagradian knew it was the end, hardly cared. His only son had been captured and brutally killed. His French wife had turned against him. He himself had fallen hopelessly in love with an Armenian girl. Just as the final assault began, something happened that seemed to Bagradian an anticlimax...
Though Author Werfel's scene centres on a Syrian mountain top it takes in glimpses of a wider view. In Istanbul, Berlin and Antioch German missionaries and consuls, God-fearing Moslems, meddle dangerously with high-tension wires to save a race condemned by cold policy. Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany...