Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats gathered at St. Anthony first thought they would not put up a candidate to oppose Senator Borah, largely because nobody wanted such an empty nomination. Then they changed their mind, named John Tyler of Emmett for the Senate. Nominee Tyler, 55, a grade school teacher turned farmer and smalltown politician, declared: "If elected, I will not be found voting with the Republicans as Borah has been with the Democrats." Democrats nominated for Governor G. Ben Ross, Mayor of Pocatello...
Goodwill Tour. In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours...
...which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when 2,000 carousing extras paid for their sins beneath an awesome shower...