Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked through the country visiting villages and investigating twelve collective farms. Everywhere I heard the cry: 'There is no bread, we are dying!' This cry is rising from all parts of Russia; from the Volga district, from Siberia, from White Russia, from Central Asia and from the Ukraine black dirt country...
...Author. Joel Sayre, 33, born a Hoosier, was brought up in Columbus, Ohio. During the War he served "briefly" with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia; after the Armistice continued his education at Williams, Toronto, Oxford, Heidelberg, Marburg, Bliss Business College. Off & on a newshawk for ten years (on the Ohio State Journal, New York Telegram, New York Daily News, New York Herald-Tribune), he tried his hand unsuccessfully at writing advertising copy, teaching school, studying medicine. Rackety Rax's success gave him a better idea...
...Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked...
...from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres. Peter Verigin aged lustily, riding from village to village...