Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon the great eleven-car campaign train, with the President's car Pioneer as caboose, pulled out of Washington. Aboard were nearly 100 persons, including the Nominee's wife, his Secretary of Agriculture, his private secretaries, Senators O'Mahoney, Wheeler, Pittman, newshawks and cameramen...
Text of Lenin's political "will" is printed as The Suppressed Testament of Lenin and sold for 10? by Pioneer Publishers of New York City, a branch of the U. S. Trotsky organization. Written in December 1922 and January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable...
Steelmaster Sheldon then sat down to watch a drill by the Pioneer Firemen Drum & Bugle Corps. Also taking part was the Tarentum Legion Drum & Bugle Corps, newly equipped this year with epaulets and fittings of Allegheny stainless steel...
Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...
Died. Edwin Ross Thomas, 85, pioneer automobile builder whose "Thomas Flyer'' won the 1908 New York-Paris race (via Siberia) in 170 days; in Buffalo...