Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"If my technique, imagination and vision are any good." he told his brother-in-law, Carl Sandburg, in 1929, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my non-commercial . . . photographs into a pair of shoes. ..." By that year he had already set a new standard for...
The results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave...
In the 1920s grape-growers ripped out the first-class European vines-the Pinot and Senillon and Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity...
Major Berry began corralling mineral leases in the Tennessee Valley in 1932 with a Knoxville real-estate man named C. A. Harris as partner and W. H. Ford, a local promoter, as their agent. Ford continued to sign leases after President-elect Roosevelt first submitted his plan for a series...
Two days later the Sheik was accused of "possessing arms"-something every Arab sheik possesses-advised that if convicted under Britain's new emergency decree in Palestine the penalty would be Death. Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word...