Word: mike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scene. But Gardiner's announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
Alongside Michael Ambrose Mahoney, Paul Bunyan was a dim and legendary piker. Klondike Mike, the greatest of the mushers, the sourdough who struck it rich and kept his poke, is a living legend. Last week when Klondike Mike, at 74, announced in Ottawa that he was leaving Canada to settle in Los Angeles for his health, newspapers wrote dew-eyed editorials, hoped "his shade [would] be long in growing less...
When he hitched to Skagway at the start of the Klondike rush of '97, Mike was a strapping, redheaded six-footer from the backwoods of Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains...
...Days. Klondike Mike struck pay dirt at Alaska's Goldstream. He panned out $165,000 in three months, moved on to Iditarod. There he panned $10,000 a week. When he sold out ($250,000 would be a low estimate, says Mike) and headed back for Quebec, he was only 35, had not a worry in the world...
Idleness sat ill on Klondike Mike. Along with his Alaskan partner, George Rich, he started a trucking business in Ottawa, built it into one of the biggest in Canada. Then he took a major step. At 53, he learned to read and write...