Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROMANTIC RISE OF A GREAT AMERICA-Russell H. Conwell-Hardy per ($2.00.) A trip from poverty throttled youth to wealthy age. John Wanamaker, pioneer retail merchant, was born in suburban Philadelphia in 1838. died in 1922. He was prominent in church and sunday scholl work. the Y.M.C.A., missionary enterprises, reform movements, life insurance, politics, the introduction of the automobile. He was Postmaster General in President Harrison's Cabinet...
...front pages of the press, the subject of discussion was the President's World Court proposal, the suggestion that it might split the Republican Party. Interspersed with this matter were accounts of the President's vacationing in Florida?his trips aboard the Pioneer (the houseboat of Edward B. McLean), his foursomes at golf with Mr. McLean, Albert D. Lasker (the then Chairman of the Shipping Board), and Charles G. Dawes (the former Director of the Budget). Before the vacation was over, Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General, caused...
...areas of political importance and strong party feeling. By use of these maps Professor Turner will clearly trace the development of sections, through early immigration, into compact political units. Thus transplanted New England ideas and possibly prejudices, he shows, are strongly focussed in certain sections of the west where pioneer stock settled half a century...
...Maiden Detroit and put it into passenger work over the city. The vessel is built entirely of a new metal called duralumin, said to be lighter than aluminum yet stronger than steel. Another builder was the Aircraft Development Co. Edsel Ford donated a Dearborn flying field to the two pioneer companies; while the Common Council of Detroit has started to acquire a municipal landing field on the Detroit River...
...suspect that every really funnyman must take himself seriously. Mr. Guiterman, of course, has not confined his writing purely to gay verses. He has had serious moments not without power. To be sure Your Puppy's Valentine is not deep; but there is a poem called The Pioneer which has much grace and beauty...