Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago, when reindeer were introduced to Alaska, a few Lapps were brought to this country with them. Most of them eventually returned to Lapland, but one Laplander settled in Seattle, married an American girl and became a very successful banker...
...himself on the public payroll for 22 years, the Civil Service Commission last week published a 1,500-page survey of jobs outside the merit system which will fall to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. The jobs ranged from Secretary of State to trackwalker on the Government's Alaska Railroad. Copies of the report, dispatched at once to President-elect Roosevelt and Democratic Chairman Farley, his patronage boss, listed some 65,000 political positions (exclusive of 15.600 appointive postmasterships)-one for every 350 men & women who voted the party ticket last November...
...citizens of Florida had been ordered to grow & deliver to the U. S. Government a certain number of oranges; if they failed to do so; and if they were punished by being shipped in freight cars from Florida to Alaska, their fate would be no harder than was that of 46,000 Cossacks last week in Russia...
...foreign countries and possessions of the United States are represented for the first time in several years. These are Alaska, Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Straits Settlements, and Yugoslavia. Canada heads the list of foreign students, as in previous years, with 51 men. China follows with 32, and Hawaii takes third with 24. England kept her position with...
...Manhattan, the Central Postoffice inquiry section received nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus. Addresses: The North Pole Region; Artie Oshun; Sky Heavens; Top of the Earth; Chimney Top Street; No. 1 Main Street, North Pole; Alaska; Freezing Lake, N. P.; The Happy Land Where There Is No Depression; Over the Hills & Far Away; Santa Ground...