Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixty years the Republican Party kept a politically solid North by creating and maintaining a bitter sectional feeling," he said, "but disintegration has come, and like a pack of timber wolves, smelling for the scent of fresh preserves, the leaders, orators and propagandists of the Republican Party are moving into the Southland...
Washington. The alleged issue was Tacoma v. the Timber Interests in a Republican fight between Chairman Albert Johnson of the House Committee on Immigration and one Homer T. Bone of Tacoma for the nomination to Mr. Johnson's seat. Mr. Johnson won narrowly. Other Republican winners were Governor Roland H. Hartley (renominated) and Kenneth Macintosh. The latter outran Miles Poindexter, oldtime (1911-23) Senator, retired Ambassador to Peru, for nomination to the Senate seat now occupied by Washington's Clarence C. Dill. Democrats nominated Lawyer A. Scott Bullitt of Seattle to run against Governor Hartley. Senator Dill...
...contest that rocked the copper mining area of Montana a generation ago came to a formal close yesterday with the sale of the mineral, timber and banking properties of the late Senator W. A. Clark to the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. . . . The Butte Miner, a newspaper owned by the Clark interests which played a part in the past struggles, also was sold...
...blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...
Butte became certainly the ugliest town in the world, surrounded by mountains of gray-green refuse and black slag. Within the mines, men faced the imminent dangers of cave-ins and fires. When the timber supports once became ignited there was no hazarding when the fire might end. The St. Lawrence mine at Butte caught fire in 1899. Last week, it was still burning. And when miners were not meeting underground dangers, they kept one hand on their guns. Strangers in Butte spoke softly. Painted women learned it was safer to laugh than to talk...