Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drives himself to & from the Capitol in a Ford, keeps a big limousine and chauffeur for social purposes. The Senate's most inveterate sportsman, he bowls and boxes daily at a gymnasium, plays golf in the 70's at Burning Tree Club, shoots ducks, goes to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bear, and bring their cubs back to the Washington zoo. Socially he moves in the best Washington circles but prefers admirals to most of his Senate colleagues who privately consider him unnecessarily standoffish...
...Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia socialite, left for Nenana, Alaska, there to be joined by a guide named Mike Cooney for six months exploration of the Far North...
Into a women's rummage sale in Washington curiously wandered Congressman Vincent Carter of Wyoming. Respectfully, he put down his hat while he walked around. He returned to find his hat had been sold for the benefit of a hospital in Ketchikan, Alaska...
Died. Richard Stanley Ryan, 70, old-time gold prospector who helped found Nome, Alaska, headed its first vigilance committee, became its first mayor in 1899; after long illness; in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. He was the first delegate from Alaska in the U. S. Congress...
Natives of outlying points have learned the flying schedules of planes from Fairbanks and regularly file orders of their needs by Government wireless in advance. A message recently received by Alaska Airways from its agent in Wiseman...