Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself by odd jobs. In six years at Iowa State College he won his bachelor's and master's degrees, showed such ability in agricultural chemistry that he was made a member of the faculty. Forty-one years ago the great Booker Taliaferro Washington summoned him to Tuskegee Institute to start a school of agriculture...
...Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
Engaged. André Tardieu, 60-year-old threetime (1929, 1930, 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mile. Julia Angelique Largenton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...
...from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals he serves all-comers...
...college presidents started their careers so unpromisingly as James Madison Wood, who was born in a log cabin at Hartville, Mo. 61 years ago. At the age of 21, when he married Hartville's Lela Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens...