Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul, Minnesota capital, has a newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is the usual stodgy and amorphous compendium of local accidents, arrests, entertainments, boiler-plate hokus-pokus from New York, syndicated national news service. Like the papers of other middle-sized middle-western cities, The St. Paul Pioneer Press functions, apparently, on the assumption that few events that happen in Europe are important enough to be told to the people of St. Paul...
...people of St. Paul, at least the more intelligent of them, have long been dissatisfied with The St. Paul Pioneer Press. They hoped that Mayor Nelson was too. A month ago the publishers of the Pioneer Press invited Mayor Nelson to edit their paper for one day. He accepted. And 'the more Intelligent People hoped that he would put some foreign news in it, take the fog out of it, compress it, organize it, speed it up. Doubtless he knew a thing or two about newspaper editing or he would not have been asked to take-or accept...
...griddle cakes, beside their coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside section) the Pioneer was the same streaky lump it had been before...
...Reece does not believe in Evolution, a fact which comforted all pioneer Tennesseeans. But he does believe that, if the theory could be proved beyond the shadow of a scientific doubt, it would not conflict with the tale of Genesis. This was likewise approved by the Tennesseeans...
...Vienna, the city where lie the bones of Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...