Word: hikers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summer. Unlike the walkers of Germany who are out for the sport of pedestrianism and who want no rides, unlike the troops of unemployed in England who move from town to town on foot to get a dole and who shun on automobile, the U. S. hitch-hiker is going places as fast as possible...
Many a motorist has been warned against picking up unknown characters along the road. Wisconsin first passed a law making it an offense not only for a hiker to solicit a hitch but for a motorist to pick him up. Other states with laws aimed only at the hitchhiker: Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Athens, Ga., passed a municipal ordinance to prevent University of Georgia students from begging rides into Atlanta...
...board to consist of principal senior officers, much as the "Managing Directors" or "Council of Directors"' used by many foreign banks. Into this position will go Albert Henry Wiggin, genial, well-known Chairman of Chase. Banker Wiggin is really self-made, having no college education, no "affiliations." A strenuous hiker, he often made the famed passage of "from Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection of etchings. Although he has neither the promotional instincts...