Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped off the map by a $1,000,000 tire...
Harvard's Museum of Mineralogy gave the lie yesterday to a group of ERA workers at Salisbury Beach who claimed that they had escaped death from the skies by the merest chance...
...claimed that a meteor descended on the beach, missing them by inches, and burying itself in the sand. For several days they charged admission to see the rarity, but their profitmaking was cut short when the stone was sent to Harvard to be analyzed. Experts were puzzled at first, but their bewilderment was short-lived. The "meteor" was nothing more than a clinker from a furnace...
Regardless of the qualifications which Mr. Justice Brandeis has for an advisory position, a more important issue is raised. That a Justice of the Supreme Court should counsel either the Executive or the Legislature is without known procedent. The decisions which he and his colleagues make from the Beach cannot be revered, and it is only in the courtroom where he is supposed to comment on governmental matters. The division between the Executive and Legislative branches has certainly become less sharp these last two years. Congress has entrusted some of its powers to the President and has yielded others...
...cooperate, but it was then he took to hysterics and became a mad man. His invective against James Wadsworth, whom the Committee planned to choose, was counteracted by a lucky break. The same morning the Committee announced that they wanted Robert Moses, the park commissioner who designed Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young and forceful, Mr. Moses possessed none of the Old Guard characteristics which Mr. Macy bombarded. The Committee stood so high that they defeated Mr. Macy utterly at the pre-convention meeting and named Clarence Hancock...