Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only adventure in politics up to that time had been his appearance as an Alaskan delegate at the 1920 Democratic convention which nominated James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 he appeared in John J. Raskob's waiting room carrying a brief case full of figures, but that Democratic National Chairman was much too preoccupied to see the hefty young amateur. Hurja's service in that campaign was limited to a few menial political jobs performed for the late Terence F. McKeever, Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among...
...most hard-boiled political commentator. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, AMERICAN -Mrs. Fremont Older-Appleton-Century ($4). Authorized biography of the publisher, by the widow of San Francisco's famed liberal editor. FOG AND MEN ON BERING SEA-Max Miller-Button ($3). Max Miller covers the Alaskan waterfront on a Government boat. Illustrated with photographs...
...came to Pomona in 1928 to see his daughter act in a college show with Joel. Wood watched McCrae more than he did his daughter. Though a student of public elocution, Joel didn't get a chance to talk much in the talkies until he was cast in an Alaskan hunting story with the late Louis Wolheim. Talking and acting an outdoors man were two things Joel could do well...
...When we took our first flight over this territory," Washburn said, "we found no less than four new glaciers of considerable size, and nineteen peaks over 10,000 feet high. Then we also found out that the Canadian-Alaskan boundary is over five miles...
Because of the almost insurmountable St. Elias Range which runs along the southern section of the Alaskan-Yukon border, the International Boundary Commission around 1900 was able to survey only from the Alaskan side. It was upon the uncharted Canadian side that Washburn did his work from February to June of this year...