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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid, where he found David recovering and insistent upon more fighting. Father Frederick wanted to fight, too, but his age (55) and his ulcers made it impracticable. So he retired to Paris, where he did his fighting with more conservative...
...people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard someone chopping down a tree that grew near the road. Old William Case seized his shotgun, slipped up on two figures tying the chopped tree to their rickety automobile. With no word of warning, outraged old "Santa Claus" fired twice. William Rousseau, 37, fell dead. His wife, Minnie, 29, weltered in her blood. Explained old William Case, calmly: "The tree was theirs for the asking. . . . But when people steal them it's different...
From Berlin last week came word that the man whom Führer Adolf Hitler had chosen to raise an army of White Russians to stir up trouble on the Ukrainian border was onetime Tsarist General Turkul. The general is accustomed to trouble, having recently been deported from France for alleged German dealings uncovered during the inquiry into the mysterious "kidnapping" of General Eugene de Miller, leader of Paris' White Russian colony...
Small and stocky, the most arresting thing about him is his speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...
...these eleven writers, nine seem to help define the word poet, two-one living and one dead-make the word poet make sense...