Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money than any man has ever made in a lifetime. Yet 30 years ago in the days of Roosevelt I, John Davison Rockefeller was frequently and publicly proclaimed as the "mosthated man" in the U. S. The $29,000,000 fine imposed on Standard Oil in 1907 by Kenesaw Mountain Landis was merely a reflection of the public's temper. Mr. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust were not viewed with the cynical distrust which Big Business enjoys in the days of Roosevelt II. At that time the public was roused to a white fury by the ruthless tactics...
...their fifth and final climb of the year, the Mountaineering Club will ascend Pinnacle Mountain in Huntington's Ravine this Sunday. The climbers will stay at the Mountaineering Club cabin over the weekend and will start out on the all day sabbath jaunt under the leadership of Dana B. Durand, instructor in History and Literature...
...return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain, miraculously without injury to his eight passengers (TIME, Dec. 28 et seq.). Last week. Pilot Merrill finally got into the headlines with news of a more successful sort...
...Germany it was 2 a.m. when the telephone tinkled by Adolf Hitler's bed at his mountain nook at Berchtesgaden. After he heard that Germany's greatest transport pride was no more, he paced his room nightlong, too upset to say anything...
...blonde of the month", the Blanchard-Dorner boys enjoy an envious name in their line. Generally they restrict their polling to "an extremely representative committee of outstanding artists and showmen," but this time they have evolved the idea of consulting the leading Universities, which include, besides Harvard, Hobart, Black Mountain, Sturgeon Bay Teachers, Little Creek, Yale, Ripon, C.N.C.N.C.N.C.Y., the Hobo College, Pierre Foundation of Budding Studs, Rollins, and the newly founded Society of Agrarian Aggies...