Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. One of his prosecutors then was Clyde Roark Hoey, who as Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
...Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...
Last year only four major football teams wound up their regular seasons undefeated, untied. Three of them were Southern: Texas Christian, Duke, Tennessee. All three were invited to participate in post-season Bowl games. Two of them beat their opponents and the third (Duke) had Southern California licked until 18 seconds before the Rose Bowl's final whistle...
...overpowered Holy Cross and Fordham-two of the East's most powerful teams. The following week, Tulane trimmed Fordham and North Carolina trounced New York University, a less touted but promising outfit. By last week even the proudest Northerners had to admit that football was acquiring a decided Southern accent. A little grudgingly they conceded that the most outstanding game of the week was not in Yale's hallowed Bowl, not in Minnesota's famed Stadium nor Los Angeles' vast Coliseum, but in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains at Knoxville: Alabama v. Tennessee...
Lightwood, a first novel, is the account of 16 years (1874-1890) of war between a northern lumber corporation and squatters who, since the early 19th Century, have inhabited the pine barrens of southern Georgia. It carries the Corn family (squatters) through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage, murder, abortive revolution-and, on the side, develops some creditable focuses in the enemy camp and in the mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably...