Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turkish troops were scheduled this week to march peacefully over the southern border of Turkey into the 10,000-square-mile Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta, an autonomous district of French-mandated, soon-to-be-independent Syria. Sent back to Geneva on the demand of Turkey, at the request of France, was the League of Nations Commission which had been invited to supervise the election of a legislature which, if held, would have amounted to a plebiscite for Turkish or Syrian rule...
...mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge. In 1937 it was joined to sparsely settled, residential Marin County, across the Gate, by the mighty Golden Gate Span. Before that, motorists used to pay a minimum toll of 60? to be barged over the same routes on ferries owned by the Southern Pacific Company. Last year, with both bridges charging a 50? toll, the ferries began to undersell them by charging 30? one way, 50? round trip. San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific's rate-cutting didos might have something to do with the road's scheme to sell...
...Creole stories of gentle George Washington Cable seem amiable but shrewd, are taken as patent proof that Cable loved his native New Orleans. But when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath of old settlers, neighbors...
...Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks, wenching, gambling, stealing, murdering. What bothered old settlers was that Author Robertson attributed these activities to prominent people readily identified as his ancestors...
...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...