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...Pittman lost interest in elk. He sank his whole inheritance in boomtown lots in Seattle. He listened eagerly to tales of a gold strike in the Klondike. He headed north. In the Klondike he was soon chopping wood for a living. Chasing whispers of gold in Alaska, Pittman mushed over the snow wastelands to Nome, to find that the tough guys were running affairs. But vigilantes took over, and Key Pittman got his first real job: he became Nome's first prosecuting attorney. By 1901 he had absorbed just enough law to give him a belief he always cherished...
Labor espionage and the more direct methods of fighting unionism are as common in the automobile as in any other big open-shop industry in the U. S. Until the advent of the New Deal, boomtown Detroit was hardly aware that it was in fact open-shop. Its working population had drifted in from rural regions where unions never existed. Indeed, many an automobile worker learned about unions for the first time from the lips of the boss in 1933 when company unionism was budding under NRA's Section...
Since Adolf Hitler's organs of speech are rated by Nazis the Fatherland's most precious possession, Germans were busy last week setting up a special summer Realmchancellory at famed Bad Reichenhall, No. 1 resort in Germany for the cure of throat ailments, today a boomtown jam-packed with many a recuperating brownshirt Demosthenes...
Busy preserving this fiction last week were a U. S. and a British consul. In Hsinking, raw boomtown capital of the puppet Empire, they called upon Manchukuoan officials presumably to protest against Manchukuo's confiscatory oil monopoly (TIME, Nov. 5), treated them as persons, not as officials of unrecognized Manchukuo...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...