Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kermit Roosevelt: "My brother, Archie, was robbed of some of his distinction as a hunter of big game when, last week, it was reported that Hunter Stanley R. Graham of Chicago had returned with four pumas from the Princon Mountains, Ariz., where my brother hunted but bagged naught...
...Tucson, Ariz...
...That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school quarantined as an institution to which, after Jan. 1, only diseased children might be sent...
...Senator Ralph H. Cameron of Arizona, Republican, was twice pained last week. His re-election hopes were blasted by Representative Carl T. Hayden, Democrat. His plea for an investigation of the Democrats' campaign expenditures turned around and smote him. The publisher of the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier testified‡ that Senator Cameron's secretary had asked him: "How much will you take for your newspaper for about 30 days...
...state in 1912. Question: Wherefore the long-lasting potency of Governor Hunt? Perhaps it is because he was as strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless. First he became a waiter, then a cowpuncher, then a successful businessman. For 14 years before Arizona became a state, he served in the legislature; put through bills forbidding women in the saloons and banning gambling, thereby striking at the social life...