Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the fortune seekers who swarmed to the Yukon in the 1898 Gold Rush was one Michael Stepovich, out of the Balkans by way of Oregon. He struck it fairly rich. Unlike most sourdoughs, he sank his profits into land investments instead of boozy sprees. Other Alaskans thought he was crazy to pay hard-earned money for wasteland around Fairbanks, but as the mining camp grew into a bustling city, Stepovich grew rich, became known all over the territory as "Wise Mike...
Burke said his office has made plans to help students secure positions on the work crews despite the complicated procedure of hiring which prevails in eastern Massachusetts. In this area, the unions, not the companies, do the hiring, but the Burke emphasized that he had been in touch with Michael Taralo, an official of the Construction and General Laborers Union, AF of L-CIO, and that Taralo assured him openings, would probably be plentiful...
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...MICHAEL : I, Michael, shall go and order the heavenly hosts to let him walk on earth without any protection . . . And should he sink down on his knees with the sweat breaking out of him like drops of blood under the burden of the curse of being Man, I shall strengthen him only from afar that he might continue to suffer, just as he gave consolation to the believers, consoling them in order that they might continue to suffer...
...Bury All. Curley's private life was scarred by tragedy. His first wife, Mary, died of cancer. Of his nine children, seven died, two of them on the same day from the same cause: cerebral hemorrhage. Today James Michael Curley is beyond the end of his political trail, the last of the city bosses who went down before a combination of social services, prosperity, a more hardheaded electorate. He was soundly beaten in his last three mayoralty bids (the most recent in 1955), and last December narrowly survived an operation for a stomach ulcer. His final ambition: attaining...