Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts' green and social Berkshire hills, a pioneer landowner in 1849 was William Aspinwall Tappan, Boston merchant and banker. He purchased 210 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, called it "Tanglewood," built a Victorian mansion on it. He also built a small red cottage which he rented to Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best...
...Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from...
There are three Life Camps: for girls at Branchville, Conn., directed by Miss Lois Goodrich; for boys (8 to 16) at Pottersville, N. J., under William L. Gunn; and a new pioneer camp for older boys (13 to 16) at Matamoras, Pa., under Martin J. Feely. The camps stay open until Sept. 1. Youngsters spend at least a fortnight in camp and many of them stay a month. The Branchville camp runs an extra ten days for a group of older girls (16 to 20) known as the Life Lifers' Club...
...heroine of the Kurd hunt was 22-year-old Sabiha Gogçen Hanoum, Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's adopted daughter who last year became the first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded...