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Last week a caravan of seven dusty Army automobiles drew up before the courthouse in Springfield, Baca County, Colo., cradle of the Dust Bowl. Out of the cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Biography of a Blister | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Scott City, Kans., the Commission saw the Kansas half of the Dust Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Biography of a Blister | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

This week the rest of the Commission's trip (see map) takes it north to view regions even more desolate than the Southwest's Dust Bowl, the blister that covers parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming. Later they will meet the President in South Dakota, make a preliminary report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Biography of a Blister | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...East gate appeared the last runner of the 3,000 who had relayed the Olympic Flame from Olympia in Greece. He scampered down the steps, paddled across the arena, trotted up the west stairs to a platform, dipped his torch. The Olympic Fire flared up from its bowl and the Games were under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Married. Violet Hilton, 28, one-half of the Hilton Siamese twins; and Trombonist James Moore, 25; on the 50-yd. line of Texas Centennial's Cotton Bowl; in Dallas. Because she is joined to Twin Daisy at the hips, Twin Violet has been refused marriage licenses in Manhattan, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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