Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days as a pioneer Wyoming lawyer, Willis Van Devanter was an ardent horseman and grizzly-hunter. At 77, he plays an occasional round of golf, goes duck-shooting several times each season. One of these forays occurred one afternoon early last month. He and his shooting crony, Rev. ZëBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, went down to the Deep Hole Point Club, a rough wooden shack on the "Old Dawdon Place" near Occoquan, Va., 35 mi. southwest of Washington...
...Oliver Hart Dyke's father was Sir William Hart Dyke, Disraeli's Parliament whip, friend of Charles Dickens, lawn tennis pioneer. Month after he died, aged 93, in 1931, his wife followed him to the grave. Inheritance taxes of $500,000 forced Son Oliver to stop living at Lulling-stone Castle, family seat of the Hart Dykes for almost 300 years. Enterprising Lady Hart Dyke promptly started a silkworm factory in Lullingstone Castle. "I've been very keen on silkworms since I was seven years old," she explained last week, "and later I began to study them...
Next big job for able Arthur Brisbane was with fiery Joseph Pulitzer, whose World was astounding New Yorkers as the pioneer "yellow" newspaper. When William Randolph Hearst came out of the West to challenge Pulitzer with his rampant new Evening Journal, one of the first Pulitzer men he hired away was Brisbane, who had added 600,000 readers to the Sunday World by his inspired journalistic showmanship and ballyhoo. Appointed editor of the Journal in 1897, Brisbane swore he would drink no more claret till the Journal's, circulation could be compared with the World's high mark...
Parallel to Walter Briggs's rise in Detroit baseball have been his fortunes in the manufacture of automobile bodies. The same year he was lucky in getting World Series tickets he joined B. F. Everitt Co., pioneer auto trimmer. When Owner Barney Everitt and two friends started the E. M. F. Co. (motor cars), Mr. Everitt did not think it altogether ethical to run a competing business of his own, so he made a deal with his able employe, Walter Briggs, to take over the trimming plant, which was soon called Briggs Mfg. Co. It went on painting...
...stand last October in the SEC's investigation of investment trusts, he pointed out that Mayflower was not an investment trust in the usual sense. Explained Mr. McConnell: "Its avowed purpose is not merely to purchase and hold securities for income, but rather to undertake hazardous ventures; to pioneer in new enterprises, and to develop new sources of minerals and raw materials...