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Word: furs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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WIND OVER WISCONSIN-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...left, decided to show businessmen their mistake. Professor Paul R. Mort, director of the college's Advanced School of Education, invited business executives to a conference with the professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork Co.; Dr. Harold Stonier, executive manager of American Bankers Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Businessmen v. Schoolmen | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Florida Democratic primaries bub whenever Dave Sholtz spies a white man on one of Florida's long, straight roads, he stops his car, gets out to say: "I'm Dave Sholtz. I want you to vote for me for Senator." It is said he could sell fur boots in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Died. Hazlett Kyle Campbell, 80, last direct descendant of Fur Trader Robert Campbell, rival of John Jacob Astor; of pneumonia; in St. Louis, Mo. Mentally incompetent, Hazlett Campbell apparently left no will, and his $1,850,000 estate will probably be fought for by claimants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years before presenting himself as a contestant, sings today in five languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Auditions | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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