Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Blackburn, continued Mr. Hunter, knew plenty about one case of WPA "inefficiency": Records showed that Blackburn was given a WPA job in January 1936, assigned to a tree-cutting project, suspended for 15 days for drinking "in sufficient amounts 1) to draw the . . . attention of local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told...
...streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
...Holyoke St., next door to the Hygiene Building, the wary observer will notice that something new has been built out of something old. Where was the Big Tree swimming pool, which used to house the Harvard Dramatic Club, is now a modern medical building, with neat, well-furnished offices on both of its two floors...
...expert on fires and fire-fighting equipment in Boston and vicinity, and his file of pictures runs the gamut from the removal of a cat form a tree to general alarm blazes. He knows just what equipment each department possesses, and is particularly partial to old-time, horse-drawn steamer units...
With reports from all over this area bringing in news such as that of the New Hampshire State Forester that he had not seen a single pine tree standing between Concord and the southern state line, and with the fallen timber rapidly drying, National Guard units prepared to keep tourists out of the district and take all possible precautions...