Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act that the A. A. R. realized it would take several months of bickering to put through the cut. Last week the industry got a taste of what might happen in the meantime. Rutland Railroad Co. (407 miles of track mostly in Vermont), which has lost $2,000,000 since 1931, went into receivership two months ago and Federal Judge Harland B. Howe granted an injunction preventing creditors from hindering the road's operations. Recently the Rutland has been losing $2,400 a day. This month the court directed that the receiver temporarily...
Today, modern dance, like modern music and modern painting, is no longer modern. But last week its devotees from 34 States converged on Bennington, Vt., where Bennington College opened its fifth annual Festival of the Modern Dance. In the sprawling white farm buildings which house Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis...
...liquidated within 20 years. Interest runs at the rate the Government pays on its own long-term obligations, currently 2.77%. Both REA and Electric Home and Farm Authority finance the purchase of electrical appliances, making loans not to consumers but to dealers. Only four States-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island-are without at least one REA project. Leading customers are Ohio, with 7,000 miles of lines, Wisconsin (6,100 miles), Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Texas...
...sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes, but never has its protective power been of such worldwide concern as in 1938. Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come...
...Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin, the first by three votes and the second...