Word: frontiersman
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...true! Not a lie in it!" So Daniel Boone used to crow about Kentucke, the famous Kentucky history which first printed his "autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...
...Frontiersman. While most of the 85% of U. S. citizens who still earn their livings in private industry wonder whether the remaining 15% will forever remain dependent on the Government for daily bread, Harry Hopkins has long since made up his mind. Behind his immediate plans for this year's relief, is something far bigger, an economic philosophy in which work-relief is not an emergency measure but a permanent program...
...from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging adultery and desertion, demanding large alimony and division of community property. Both won, and into the stalemate stepped that spectacular frontiersman, David Smith Terry...
...Like the frontiersman of old, Harvard University has set itself the task of hacking its way through a wild and tangled wilderness, the poisonous growth of a century-old spoils system. The newly forged weapon for this attack is the Graduate School for Public Administration...
...local immigrant school have divine certainty on two points. First, of course, is the great democratic hypothesis of equality which Mr. Lincoln phrased so enchantingly at Gettysburg. But next the halting, all credulous alien is told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking the gong around, and civil service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult...