Word: cass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobber, driving through the timberlands in his Chevrolet to buy up small lots of lumber and sell them to the mills. With his good sense, his jet-black Indian hair and his love of talk, he is also a familiar figure in the lobby of the Endion Hotel at Cass Lake, where red and white men of affairs assemble regularly to settle matters of moment. As a past president of the Chippewas' tribal council, he understands Indians and wild rice...
...mostly it is made up of people like the Hiram Dales ("There are scores of people who have pinched more pennies in Emporia than the Dales"), Dan Hirschler, Belle Harris, Cass Friedburg, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, people who become presidents, people who graduate from high school, give a concert, get married, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, or just move from one house to another. And with all its injustices and monumental blunders, it has been flowering-"In my lifetime I saw unfolding before me the magnificent vision that humanity had been gestating since man came out of the forests...