Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Elliott fired a gun big enough to be heard by Franklin Roosevelt. He announced his decision to veto $3,050,000 in loans promised by Farm Security Administration to five cooperatives of Southern subsistence homesteaders to build factories to manufacture silk hosiery on contract for Dexdale Hosiery Mills of Lansdale, Pa. His explanation...
...gift of nature of which expansive Southern California does not boast is floods. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90°, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through...
...Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival of Argentina, balked at accepting the leadership of her southern neighbor. Finally, a second, slightly rephrased Argentine draft was accepted...
Kentucky (Twentieth Century-Fox). Kentucky concerns a feud between two proud Southern families, romance between the great-grandson (Richard Greene) of one and the great-granddaughter (Loretta Young) of the other, and the question of whether Postman or Blue Grass will win the Kentucky Derby. It treats these matters with such profound faith in their importance that it is likely to charm even critics who feel that the cinema industry should be more than a museum...
Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...