Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Renomination, It took a whole day and most of one night to renominate Franklin Roosevelt. As in 1932 in Chicago, New York's lean, dry Judge John E. Mack, Roosevelt neighbor and onetime State Supreme Court Justice, plowed dutifully through a long, flowery speech ending up with: "I give...
In 1892 workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William...
In Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in...
He collected lumberjack stories, lived with State troopers, made friends with a professional rattlesnake hunter and caught a rattlesnake himself, interviewed two surviving Shakers in Mount Lebanon, lived in the famed Oneida Community, went to a cockfight near Syracuse, always tried to find, in the local customs, turns of speech...
Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually...