Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed, resort business washed out. A naval bombing plane, rain-blinded, crashed in Connecticut with three fatalities. At Liberty, N. Y., 25,000 tenpins worth $1 each were swept away-along with...
Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
...Seattle newsstands, in store windows, barroom mirrors, tobacco stalls, garage doors last week appeared posters announcing a memorial meeting in the Senator Auditorium for Thane Summers, 25, killed in May fighting with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Leftist Army in Spain. The posters were signed by "Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Admission to the meeting...
...northern journalist ever wrote so pungently of the South's squalor as Southerner Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road). This week a southern journalist, Jonathan Daniels, published a more sympathetic account of the South...
Evelyn Waugh (pronounced Waw) is the Erskine Caldwell of the British upper classes. The feeble-minded baronets that he pictured in Vile Bodies and Decline and Fall peer out upon the great world in contented incomprehension. Although they are not as hungry as Caldwell's Tobacco Roaders, they have the same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim...