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Gold was off by 60%. The great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through...
It was just a little old harmless gathering-until the professor gave the rebel yell. A few dozen United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Children of the Confederacy and Mississippi's Representative John Rankin had assembled in the National Capitol's high-domed Statuary Hall...
It might seem temerarious for an individual to buck the world's greatest oil companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it. For more than a quarter of a century, his legendary figure has flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak...
Then it was time for politicking. The most lavish candidate's reception was staged by Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne of Brookville, Ind., who plied the delegates with sandwiches, cake, ice cream, deviled eggs and a compote initialed D.A.R. in green confectioner's sugar. Wary of mechanical...
"If the people all over Europe do not know that we are the kindest, most generous, and most sympathetic people on the fact of the earth, no amount of silly broadcasting will enable them to realize these facts." Thus, in the House last week, cried rang-nosed Representative John Jennings...