Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 212,000 essays, the judges last fortnight unanimously chose that of Lloyd Lewis, 17, of Plattsburg, Mo. Comedian Cantor excitedly hopped to a long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair...
...time of the "Sarajevo incident", on down through the cutting of the German cables by the Allies in the early weeks of the war, through the first of the ever greater private loans to Britain and France, through the first inarticulate gaspings of the preparedness movement, the "Plattsburg idea"--Mr. Millis traces event after event which slowly and inexorably sucked the greatest democracy on earth into the earth's greatest malestrom. He spares no one; he has no respect for war-time idols, for figureheads thrown up by the War and still maintained in an anomalous position by a public...
...Plattsburg, N. Y., State troopers found chewed-off match ends beside murdered Samuel Bradley. Neighbor Elmer Rabideau was arrested, denied cigarets, allowed to keep his matches. Elmer Rabideau chewed matches just the way the ones beside Samuel Bradley had been chewed. He confessed...
Some 10,000 rustic souls, devoted to dairying, inhabit the lovely Ausable valley which runs 23" miles in a generally south-west direction from the city of Plattsburg, N. Y. Since 1894 Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware & Hudson Co. R. R. had served them well. The inhabitants told time by the train's whistle, their cows grazed contentedly as the locomotive chuffed uncertainly...
...morning in 1929 the Ausable countryside remained strangely quiet. Passenger trains had ceased running; the ticket windows were closed in Ausable Forks. Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Salmon River, Cliff Haven, all the way to Plattsburg. And that might have been the end of passenger trains in the Ausable valley had not there soon returned from a trip to Greenland small, baldish Artist Rockwell Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader...