Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the late fall of 1927 an Eskimo youth found a piece of heavy, bright metal in an unnamed creek (later called Fox Gulch) about nine miles south from the southerly side of Goodnews Bay, on lower Kuskokwim Bay, and gave this nugget to Chas. Thorsen, a gold minor of that section. Thorsen sent some to the Alaska School of Mines, Fairbanks for analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made...
...scrupulously performed his outward "public duties." He has been the "Empire Salesman." He has led a charmed youth with the result that today at 42 he still seems from a distance of 15 feet only about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only...
...faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more than twice a year. For the lower orders he has no more reverence, observing that a hammer murderess has got exactly what she deserves-three weeks in vaudeville...
...every expectancy of a new life. F. D. R. was the man "who had opened the banks . . . ended the depression . . . restored wages." In short, the "man of the peepul." On the other hand, the waitresses almost unanimously were for Alf, feeling that he "would end the depression . . . restore wages . . . lower the cost of living." While the Kansan polled almost 98% of the waitresses vote, still many other menu handlers shly admitted a preference for the virile tactics of "Break It Up" Apted, head of the Yard Police...
Kurtz represented a Quaker State district in the lower House at Washington for 12 years, retiring two years ago to devote himself to his law practice. He is widely known as one of the best trial lawyers in the state, and is a former District Attorney. During the war he was chairman of the committee on Public Safety and Counsel of Defense...