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...Candidate Dewey drove through a blizzard from Butte to Helena, where in 70 miles there are abandoned mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Up the Mountain | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...individualistic and it was shamelessly corrupt when the first J. Pierpont Morgan came to Manhattan in 1857 from the London banking house of his father, Junius Spencer Morgan, onetime New England drygoods merchant. Through the "Western Blizzard" panic of that year and for two years more, young, brusque, tough-fibered Morgan listened & learned as a Wall Street junior clerk. By 1860 he was in business as New York agent for his father's George Peabody & Co., bought and sold foreign exchange through the Civil War. Also, he helped finance the sale to the Union Army of 5,000 carbines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Gotterdammerung | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...real snow bird succumbed to the blizzard which hit New England yesterday, when Alfred Eipper of the ski team slipped on the ice, hit a curb stone, thereby breaking his knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skier Breaks Knee-Cap On Ice While Running by River | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

...bowling northeast blizzard, perhaps the worst in 20 years, swept into New England last night, paralyzing rail, highway and ocean traffic and causing at least two deaths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORST BLIZZARD IN 20 YEARS PARALYZES ALL NEW ENGLAND | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

Webster N. Jones '42 and Karl J. Sax '40, the two skiers who nearly lost their lives last weekend in a Mount Washington blizzard, were today well on the read to recovery, although there is still the possibility that Jones will lose one or two toes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS NOT LIKELY FOR STUDENT SKIERS | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

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