Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 200 stranded U. S. farmers whom the Government set out to rehabilitate in Alaska's Matanuska Valley three and a half years ago was Walter Pippel of Hennepin County, Minn. Last week came news of how Walter Pippel, who arrived with $54, had become Matanuska's star farmer and outstanding anti-social force. Instead of selling the garden produce from his 40 acres through the marketing co-operative which is as proud a feature of Matanuska as its shining community creamery, schools, hospital and recreation centre, individualistic Walter Pippel journeyed to Anchorage and other railroad towns...
...nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox's Daily News. Some surprising deal was seen in the making when Tom Courtney visited Harold Ickes in Washington over the weekend...
...biting the girl, the Telegram set Artist Greene to drawing the scene. Publisher Howard likes such cartoons and what he likes, millions like. Result may be to bring artists back to the role of journalist which they once played so brilliantly and to give the new race of news-photographers some hot competition...
Voicing undergraduate resentment at this fall's "suicide schedule" of the Yale football team, the "Yale News" has been waging an editorial war for a modified program of grid encounters for future years...
...motive for this change is by no means found in a selfish desire to assure Yale a more creditable showing," the "News" asserts. "Rather it is based on a frank recognition of the impossibility of asking any team, no matter how strong, to face a schedule composed solely of major opponents. Then, too, any move in this direction is a healthy step towards the goal of de-emphasising athletics...