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...Origin of Specie. In Bath, Me., in 1857, Sailor Samuel Francis deposited $150 in a bank. Last week his heirs received the original sum plus interest...
...farm booster, with a name known to millions of farmers through his McNary-Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather had led the biggest caravan of covered wagons ever to cross the Oregon Trail. On his 300-acre farm, "Fir Cone," McNary's house was shaded by Douglas...
...Volume IV the dispute over the origin of Yankee floored the editors. The best they could do was to indicate the word's earliest use (1765) and its range of meanings. Thus, a Yankee is an American to a foreigner, a New Englander to an American, and a Northerner to a Southerner; as a verb the word is obsolete slang meaning "to hornswoggle...
Notable additions here are Professor Frederick Merk's History 62a, "The History of the Westward Movement to 1840," and Dr. Oscar Handlin's History 66, "The Immigrant in American History." The latter "deals with the origin and development of national groups in the United States from the Revolution to the present with particular emphasis on the problems arising out of the contact of diverse cultures...
Apropos your amusing discussion of the World-Telegram's "Arpad" (TIME, Jan. 3) I should like to make a suggestion as to his probable origin, which seems to be in doubt...