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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent in the Republican Party for many years, the journalist began his career on the Kansas City "Star" in 1891. In 1895 he bought the Emporia "Gazette," which he developed into one of the leading papers of the West...
...member of the Yale class of '09 Moses did graduate work for a year and received a Ph.D. at Columbia before going into public service. He began his career as a municipal investigator in 1913, working his way up through the civil service until he was appointed Park Commissioner by Mayor LaGuardia three years...
Slim, weatherbeaten Shannon Davidson was the first rider to reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
...Henderson had followed the race route, scrupulously refrained from changing horses until he had ridden 25 miles-consequently had won the booby prize (honorary) hands down. Seeing nothing funny in his place or predicament, Horseman Henderson angrily announced he would sue the Nocona Chamber of Commerce. Then he began looking for a way to get home...
Three years ago, the Interior Department began to trap beavers, turn them loose in eroded Idaho areas. By the end of last season, some 500 beavers were busily damming streams under Government supervision, by the end of this year more than 1,000 may be at work...