Word: montanans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Masters & Men. Thus after monarchs, missionaries and merchants came a Montanan to join the company of rulers who have governed the Sandwich Islanders. In 1820 in the days of the sandalwood trade, when missionaries began to arrive by shiploads, the islands were ruled by the native dynasty founded by the great Kamehameha. The missionaries undertook more than the care of Polynesian souls. They became advisers and ministers to the native monarchs. Their lay offspring became merchants and, with Yankee traders who settled there, took the islands' economic upbringing firmly in hand. Thus sprang up a benevolent white aristocracy which developed...
...Montanan McDowell, aged 67, was alone last week. His wife,who had always wanted to live abroad, died last November. Like the Montanans, the Irish liked him. The train that took him from Cobh to Dublin across the astonishingly green-splotched fields was hung with twined Irish and U. S. flags. It was out to set a record...
...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...