Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Bermuda, Mackinac Island, charming summer resort at the northwest end of Lake Huron, prohibits automobiles. Last week. Mackinac relaxed its rule for the first time, let one automobile ashore to carry a crippled man to the ferry. Back to the mainland with him went...
...Germany and Italy are allowed to resort to open intervention, and the rout of international morality is made complete, Great Britain and her satellite France are to blame. No greater blow could have been dealt the Spanish Republic, and the front of constitutional democracies in general, than the non-intervention pact which raised the ideal smoke screen behind which Hitler and Mussolini could do their work...
...Teachers' Oath Repeal. In their campaign to show the people the significance of the issue, teaching groups were rewarded with amazing success, as eight out of nine of their candidates defeated out and out oath supporters. A mild form of pressure politics was employed by these groups, yet without resort to the traditional bossed machines already established. That these amateurs should have won so conclusively in the political arena is nothing short of astounding and at the same time bodes well for repeal at an early date...
...branch line of Union Pacific R. R. Its new importance springs from the fact that it lies a mile above sea level in snowy Sun Valley at the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains. For in Sun Valley, U. P.'s Chairman William Averell Harriman is developing a winter resort with heavy emphasis on skiing. He envisions it as a St. Moritz...
...Averell Harriman's pet project. He took his wife, daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs ("Eddy") Duchin and Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting's president, on an inspection tour with Count Schaffgotsch last winter. The Count will provide a platoon of Austrian ski teachers for the resort...