Word: kiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little old New York City," was actually born 46 years ago in Vilno, Russia. At 18 he sailed from Hamburg for Candle, Alaska, to join his brother Sam, who was working in a chain of trading posts owned by Herbert Greenberg. In 1915 the brothers bought posts at Kiana and Kotzebue, started a chain of their own. Brother Boris enlisted in the U. S. Army in Wartime, thereby gained U. S. citizenship. After the War the Magids abandoned their post at Kiana and founded others along the coast. Sam Magids died in 1929, and his widow, known as Queen Bess...