Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier the magnificos of the Reconstruction Era used to pay $10,000 to $25,000 apiece for paintings of the Hudson River School. Founder Macbeth sold his first picture a Wyant, for $750. He wrote 25 years later...
...Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall...
...Tailteann Games, in Dublin, June 29 to July 15. Named for Queen Taile, the games were legendarily started by Lugh the Long Arm in 600 B. C., held regularly till the Norman era. They were revived in 1924, include arts, crafts, drama, music as well as track and field competitions...
...time since the glorious American clipper ship era has the nation displayed such a keen interest in its ship activities," said President Hoover as he pushed a White House button which launched the Grace Line's 18,000-ton Santa Rosa at Kearny...
...large number of monographs by him include "Character and Influence of the Fur Trade in Wisconsin", "Western State-Making in the Revolutionary Era," "The Policy of France Toward the Mississippi Valley," "The West as a Field for Historical Study," and "Dominant Forces in Western Life...