Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, where freakish twisters were still coursing along the Alabama-Mississippi boundary and last week killed ten people and wrecked hundreds of houses, driving rains brought most creeks and rivers to flood stage, some beyond. Onto Whitestone Mountain in northwest Georgia descended a mighty cloudburst that sounded like Niagara, rushed down to destroy the tiny quarry town of Whitestone (pop. 200), where a family of 13 were drowned in one house...
...attention to a new U. S. poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...
...Gallup Poll gives the G. O. P. 39 new seats in the Central States. Joe Martin is currently counting on only 22, with ten from Ohio where Republicans anticipate defeating Governor Davey. The Committee expects eight new Congressmen from the corn & wheat belt, one or two from the Rocky Mountain States and two on the West Coast, from Oregon and Washington, where the Gallup Poll gave them none. Another item on the G. O. P.'s curiously negative balance sheet is of course the noisy Democratic split in Pennsylvania (see p. 16). Hoping then for a sure gain...
Twenty members of a Portland, Ore. mountainclimbing club who call themselves Mazamas (after the Indian word for mountain goat) rode in a bus early one morning last week to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, on their way to a fateful climb. Over 50 times the Mazamas had climbed the11,253-ft. mountain. They considered it a routine expedition...
...Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell...