Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Occidental College, located in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, the college's greatest literary son, Robinson Jeffers, '05, was awarded an honorary Litt.D. Born the same year as Occidental (1887), Jeffers took his B.A. there at the age of 18. He also studied medicine at the University of Southern California, forestry at the University of Washington and literature at the University of Zurich. Occidental's is the only honorary degree he has ever accepted...
...contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good and his loyalty unswerving. In 1928 he was made the Democratic nominee for Vice President to play a Southern conservative obligato to Al Smith's metropolitan liberalism, but four years later, fate having denied him the Vice Presidency, he became the loyal follower of Franklin Roosevelt. And Robinson who was more conservative than Smith became the defender of Roosevelt who was too liberal for Smith. In fact his loyalty...
...company town of Alcoa, Tenn. Promptly dispatched to Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted...
...Southern coast of Maine between Portland and Penobscot Bay, scores of tidal inlets snake from the sea between mud-flat peninsulas, crab-haunted and reedy. In these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped...
...married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking and Catholic, the 2,000 mulattoes on Cane River's "Yucca" plantation now share little in common with Negroes except their work and their social position in Southern white society...