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...Washington" because he was chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. They had defeated Indiana's Elliott who, as chairman of the Public Buildings & Grounds Committee, helped put through legislation to beautify Washington, build hundreds of post offices. They had beaten Mrs. Katherine Langley in her mountainous, rock-ribbed-Republican district in Kentucky. In the first Tennessee district Republican Representative B. Carroll Reece, the only party man President Hoover had endorsed for reelection, was beaten by Oscar Byrd Lovette, an Independent...
...from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown 35 ft. The bodies of 79 dead men lay scattered about, maimed by the explosion or torture-twisted by the gas. Nevertheless, 20 live men were found huddled in a pocket in the rock. They had built a brattice or partition of wood and canvas between them and the gas, under the leadership of Mine Foreman John Dean who, after carrying most of his companions behind the brattice, was so badly gassed he was expected to die. President Titus and his party of guests...
...climb over foothills and broken mesa interspersed by patches of desert, signposts to the Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways...
...rest of the book, Colfax is struggling to take his wife away from the easy, if empty life of their parents and their friends. His wife is perfectly satisfied where she is, and has all the non-aggressive, but immovable resistance of the Plymouth Rock. Her beauty and her passive strength are more than a match for her husband's ambition, and Colfax settles down protestingly to a discontented life...
From very early times the visible remains of the vast empires that centered between the Tigris and Euphrates have been a cause for wonder to the antiquarian--great rock carvings and huge mounds, clearly the sites of deserted cities, had been pious dissertations by travelers even before the time of Marco Polo...