Word: alaskans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
...prime talking point for the New Deal's Matanuska Valley resettlement project (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.) was that it would supply some of the food which Alaska must otherwise import. Last week in Washington, returned from a month of Alaskan observation, Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas asserted that Matanuska is a flat failure. One-third of its transplanted families, said he, were ready to quit. Though the cost of settling had run to $14,000 per family instead of an anticipated $3,500, the experiment was worth every cent it had cost, declared the Senator, because...
...adoption was a platform calling for public ownership of key industries; peace; slum clearance; a 30-hour week; a "workers and farmers amendment" to the Constitution to give Congress complete control of agriculture and industry. When the hour came for choosing candidates, George A. Nelson, Wisconsin farmer, onetime Alaskan sourdough, was nominated for Vice President. Norman Thomas, unopposed, was given the Socialist nomination for President for the third time. At this wholly expected choice, the delegates, aping Capitalist politicians, gave way to 15 minutes of shouting, cheering, singing as the white-haired nominee was carried to the platform, beaming...
...Greist's Alaskan medical-missionary district covers about 120,000 square miles. Over the tundra of that vast region he was accustomed to make two trips a year by dog-team, carrying the Gospel and purgatives to the Eskimos, performing marriages, pulling teeth...