Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pueblo...
...goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold in the last 70 years, now number 30,000. Rio Grande, neither a guidebook nor a history...
...Overhead ' is a familiar technical term in newspaper work. It describes a report flashed to a newspaper directly by commercial telegraph instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John B. Kirkpatrick of the World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over...
...begun in 1931 on Alkali Ridge, in the San Juan drainage of Southeastern Utah. Alkali Ridge is covered with hundreds of ruins, dating from the pit house of Basket-maker times to the many-roomed stone structures of Puoblo III. The object of the expedition is to define the Pueblo II culture, which has never been determined. Thirteen sites were excavated last year with gratifying results...
What Mr. Roosevelt told his many and assorted visitors-an "old dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine...