Word: axed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Axe...
...political axe has fallen upon me as City Manager of Sacramento. It has been a great fight with intrenched political forces in this old '49 city and those who wish to manipulate the City administration for selfish gain. The old, old story. . . . The office of City Manager, nor I as Manager, were not campaign issues at any time. Despite the fact, members of the Executive campaign committee of the successful Unity Ticket have received appointments as City Treasurer and City Manager...
...Guinea bushes when Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire by rubbing sticks together. They showed him how they cremated their little dead. And they laughed as they entertained him. He offered them modern steel tools. They shyly asked for bright shells and beads. He learned...