Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operate the mills, the managers scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred...
...squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian God. He confines his efforts to Americans, English and the savages...
...until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does not go into his mind but the action does. He and his son climb up a mountain. ... In the end Jannings does not put his scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another way. You may take exception to the scene on the mountain and to one or two others in which superficial events have been slightly diverted as concessions to what is believed...
...Augustus Jaggar, volcanologist of :the observatory on Kilauea, H. I., last week addressed the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association. He made two statements of interest: 1) That the time has not yet come when it will be possible to specify exact dates of coming eruptions; 2) That Mauna Loa ("Great Mountain") is preparing an eruption which will occur "sometime within the next 18 months...
...President Hoover left Washington last week for the first time since inauguration. He was gone eleven hours on an inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...