Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding's final illness was undoubtedly brought on by his strenuous exertions on the last few day of his trip, especially his arduous day at Seattle after landing from his Alaskan journey. Indirectly his death at this time may undoubtedly be traced to excessive work which fell to his lot as President. His death, following the severe illness of President Wilson produced by the same cause, has led to many suggestions that the duties of the Presidency be divided so that they should not fall with their full heaviness upon...
...Spoilers. There are a great many who believe that the movies should remain out of doors where the huts are far apart and the male inhabitants are blooded stock. Subscribers to this school of thought will thoroughly enjoy The Spoilers. It is concerned with the Alaskan gold rush and the love of a dance-hall girl. There is much hard riding, hard fighting, hard language. A crooked faro dealer and a good job in dam dynamiting add final fury to the flames of melodrama. Milton Sills plays the hero with desperate determination. There is much sincere savagery distributed among...
President Harding brought back from Alaska not only an appreciation of Alaskan problems but an admiration for the Alaskan press. He told the Seattle Press Club...
...Doubtless the Alaskan community is quite as well nourished mentally with its restricted news diet as are some of us who find our nauseated way, if we read our newspapers fully, through elaborated and expatiated stories of crime and scandal and wander through a haze of speculative politics...
...impressive feature of Alaskan press was its manifest honesty, ofttimes revealing an appealing frankness...