Word: valleys
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Governor has suddenly become interested in water and air pollution, beautification of the Hudson river valley, and minimum wage legislation, Roosevelt alleged, "Just like he did before the election four years ago." lie has acted only when his political survival is at stake, Roosevelt added...
Wearing rosaries and carrying a sequined banner that pictured the Virgin of Guadalupe, along with crudely lettered union slogans, 100 Mexican-American grape pickers last week finished a monthlong, 300-mile march of penance and protest through California's Central Valley from Delano to Sacramento. Marching with them were Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers, and the mood of the demonstrators was triumphant. For shortly before the protesters reached the state capital, they had won recognition of their embryonic union, the National Farm Workers Association, from Schenley Industries Inc., which owns about 2,400 acres of vineyards...
About 250 marchers gave a new twist to the Boston Tea Party April 2 by dumping a crate of grapes into Boston Harbor in support of the grapepickers' strike in Delano Valley, Calif...
...strike of Mexican-American farm-workers' came to a successful conclusion Wednesday when Schenley Industries, the major producer of grapes in the valley, recognized the National Farm-workers' Association as the laborer's bargaining representative...
...Trigger, 33, Roy Rogers' original palomino stallion, whose 65 hard-learned tricks won him star billing in 86 movies, a feat unmatched by his successor, Trigger Jr., 28, who does 45 stunts, but never went beyond rodeo appearances and television shows; of old age; last July; at Hidden Valley, Calif. Rogers says he withheld the announcement because he could not bear to break the news to the horse's devoted fans, who still write to "Trigger, U.S.A." "I just couldn't see covering him up," says Roy, and so Trigger has been stuffed, to stand at Rogers...