Word: elk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction. A friend of his father...
...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...
...outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
...such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...
Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...