Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Storrs Childs, a socialite young Yaleman, intends to devote 68 LIFE-sized pages each quarter to a thorough pictorial takeout of one current subject. Photo-History: I devoted itself to the Spanish Civil War. On its cover a squad of male & female Government Milicianos bang away across a valley of olive trees at their Rightist foes. Inside, the bloody story of the long, internecine struggle is graphically set forth in a series of montages of news-photographs, newspaper headlines, charts and maps. At 35?, 100,000 copies of Photo-History: I were gobbled up in a week. Forthcoming issues...
...continent divided this scene from another, more ominous inter-union struggle. Stockton, Calif., about 150 miles from the sea but connected with San Francisco Bay by a deep water channel, cans and ships the fruits and vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph...
...telegram from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
...demands that she turn over to him all the property held in her name. Faithful Mary's patience cracked when Father Divine requested the building where she was living last week-the Peace Hotel at High Falls, N. Y., one of 22 properties in the Hudson River Valley acquired by Father Divine as a "Promised Land" for his people. Said Faithful Mary: "Peace, I don't want to do it." Since "God" Divine avoids many legal troubles and income taxes by registering property in the names of his followers, there was nothing he could do to retrieve Peace...
...millions of Midwesterners the Great Lakes are a vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports...