Word: stockman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis had taught them...
Winter tramped prematurely out of the Northwest last week. A Montana stockman died in a blizzard. Minnesota lakes were skimmed with ice. Michigan had icicles. All around the Great Lakes storm-warning signals crackled in a 50-m.p.h. blast. Car radiators froze in Illinois. A heavy snowstorm swept Dunkirk, N. Y., wrecked power and telephone lines. At Eighteen Mile Creek, N. Y., 2,500 automobiles were stalled overnight in drifts...
Another vacancy on the Finance Com mittee occurred when Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett resigned to become Ambassador to Germany. To take his place Senator John Thomas of Idaho was chosen. Kansas-born, banker, stockman, twice Idaho's Republican National Committeeman, Senator Thomas was accept able to his Eastern colleagues because he is only irregularly irregular in his senate votes...