Word: blackfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peanut Vendor. No New Dealer, Al Browning has sometimes voted Republican, is a businessman's businessman. He was pleasantly inducted into the virtues of free enterprise as a teen-aged boy in his home town of Blackfoot, Idaho. He got a job selling peanuts at village and county fairs, made only $1 a day on salary. When he persuaded his employer to put him on a commission (penny a bag) he hustled fast enough to make $3.50 a day, decided he was going to become a salesman...
Governor Charles C. Gossett of Idaho, still house-hunting eleven months after his election to office, had a bright idea: he appointed a Boise doctor head of a state hospital at Blackfoot, promptly rented the doctor's Boise house...
Misnomenclature. In Denver, a Blackfoot Indian named Melvin Forgets-Nothing arrived at his recruiting office nearly a day late for his physical examination...
Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...
...christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back (at that time a four-day auto trip) between dawn and dusk...