Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans and Democrats are alike "reactionaries." In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Frank called on Mr. & Mrs. La Follette, who then lived right across the street. Their courtesy was not returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder by using the phrase "our party." Those words shivered all through politically alert Wisconsin. When Phil La Follette got back the Governorship last year, Mr. & Mrs. Frank were not invited to stand in the receiving line at the inaugural ball. Mr. & Mrs. La Follette stayed...
...Negro who feared the big-jawed defendant, repeatedly referred to him as "De Law." Specifically the Government charged that last May "De Law," as a deputy sheriff, falsely arrested eight Crittenden County blackamoors for vagrancy, railroaded them through a Justice of the Peace Court, and forced them to clear timber on his plantation to work out 30-day sentences and $25 fines. The Negroes were enslaved, it was charged, because Peacher was short of labor due to a strike of cotton choppers in the vicinity. Best Government witness was Winfield Anderson, cowering 51-year-old Negro...
...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...inhabitants of Western Oregon where forest fires raging in the parched timberland were whipped down to the coast by high winds. Fire completely destroyed Bandon (pop. 1,500), burned parts of De Poe Bay and Myrtle Point, menaced a half-dozen other small communities and 400,000 acres of timber, including some of the famed redwoods of Northern California. In Bandon, where practically all buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing. Of the 5,000 firefighters in the woods, four were killed by falling trees. Army...
Smoke pours from long, jagged fissures or "chimneys" which have opened in the farm land of Perry and Hocking Counties, the home of 5,000 people. In places the 51-year-old fire has pierced above ground, burning buildings, destroying valuable timber, causing some deaths. Property values in the towns of New Straitsville and Shawnee and environs have dropped because of smoke and noxious gases. Roadways have sunk as much as five feet and at danger points signs warn motorists to proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from...