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Arkansas is a "backward commonwealth" according to Arch-Lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania (TIME, Nov. 11). His criticism was economic, not social. Last week out of the Ozark back country trickled bits of news which illuminated the Grundy epithet in a new and startling manner...
Secretary Hyde is a personal Dry whose chief beverage-is buttermilk. His favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...
...Cotton Belt" loops southwest from St. Louis, east of the Ozark Mountains, through Cairo, Ill., Memphis, Tenn., Little Rock, Ark., Shreveport, La., to Fort Worth, Tex., with important lines into the Texas oil and cotton country. Its freight consists of cotton, oil, merchandise...
...here's Hawg Eye, air y'u lost?" Such was the soul harrowing information garnered by C. G. Croncis, an assistant in the Paleontology department of the University, when he ventured a question of a group of bill billies after losing his way on a motor trip through the Ozark Mountains last summer...