Word: ketchikan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters he wrote for me have languished in my desk this while, as well as one I wrote to him to Ketchikan which was returned forthwith marked simply, "not here." I had about decided to put the episode away and to think no more about it, but your piece has stirred me and I felt I wanted to write...
Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...
...Forum queried the Ketchikan Chronicle, got the following reply: ". . . Brown never saw Matanuska. He never worked for the Chronicle. He spent two or three weeks in Ketchikan, most of which time he was in jail. He has a record of petty thefts. He owes bills in Ketchikan. . . . I have written dozens of letters giving substantially the same information...
...receipt of the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior," President Roosevelt wrote tersely to Congress. The letter from embarrassed Harold Ickes: "I regret to report the loss of enrolled bill HR 6084 authorizing a bond issue for Ketchikan, Alaska, which was delivered to my office on May 3 by a messenger from the White House. The bill was receipted for by a messenger at my door. . . . I have caused everyone to search all papers in and on their desks. . . . I am chagrined to have to report the loss of this bill in spite of the care with which...
...Little America, Admiral Byrd blasted a greeting on the Jacob Ruppert's whistle. Five hundred celebrants at Ketchikan, Alaska waded through snowdrifts for a dance. Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week. Convicts at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet had their work day reduced from eight hours...