Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ The territory is a feminine paradise: 228 males to each 100 females (U. S. 108 to 100), but 57.6% of the men are over 35, representing the residue of sourdoughs who never left the trail.
May I also add that at the last general election in 1936, the people of the State of New Mexico elected Senator Chavez a U. S. Senator by a majority of over 19,000.
Next morning Frank Murphy was up at 8 a. m., breakfasted in his room (No. 12) on one ascetic glass of orange juice, then went out on the veranda to work diligently over mail and official-looking reports. Occasionally he would go inside, make long telephone calls. He had a...
*Hard-bitten Walter G. Pippel is Matanuska Valley's real moneymaker. He grossed $ 11,000 in 1936-37 raising cabbages, tomatoes, turnips, potatoes, now grosses $200 a week. When U. S. colony agents insisted that he sign a purchase contract for his farm-with the reservation that the colony...
Who was Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't...