Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saga. A self-styled "little squirt anxious to be a tough guy," Paul Smith skipped through high school in Pescadero, Calif., at 14 set out to rub against the world. He jumped a harvest train, spent some time in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, rode freight trains east to Ontario for gold, found none, jumped another freight back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving...
...Country. West of Winnipeg stretches the depressed, marketless wheat country, where once-prosperous farmers have replaced their Fords and Buicks with "Bennett buggies."* Their Majesties got into close touch with the prairies by climbing off and running and walking a mile down the right of way outside of Broadview, Saskatchewan, their train following at a respectful distance...
...farmers of Saskatchewan may be poor but they have spirit and imagination; concerts, dances, bazaars scraped up the money to send thousands of boys and girls in overalls and homemade dresses from schools within a radius of 200 miles to Regina, the provincial capital, for a glimpse of their King and Queen. Lacking the money for the fancy decorations of the East, the resourceful townspeople decorated the lampposts with sprays of wheat. Doubly welcome were the King and Queen for with them came rain for dusty fields. That night at little Moose Jaw, despite rain and the exhausting ceremonies...
...teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...