Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time this was done, the State forced some 600,000 Russians to move out of the great and fairly comfortable cities of Moscow and Leningrad by handing them new passports stating that they could live & work only on farms or in the smaller, pioneer cities (TIME, May 8, 1933). To make this mass passport process even harsher, Russians who had to surrender their old passports could not get new ones unless they rehearsed their entire life histories and proved that they were not enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone who turned out to be such an "enemy...
Died. Childe Hassam, 75, painter & etcher; after nearly a year's illness; in East Hampton, L. I. A pioneer importer of French Impressionism, he was sometimes pigeonholed as a "luminist" for his deft dealing with illumination and color won little recognition until after 40. In 1920 he reported earnings of $100,000. Said Childe Hassam: "There is no such thing as modern art; there is only good...
...Bible Institute grow from milk & sandwich evenings at his home into its present $65,000 plant & structure. Seldom does Mr. Aberhart address Albertans without first having them sing Our God, Our Help in Ages Past and he always closes with a heartfelt prayer. To the sturdy citizens of the Pioneer Province (with Saskatchewan last to enter the Dominion of Canada) a final seal of goodness was set on William Aberhart last week by the fact that he himself did not stand for election. "If the people want Social Credit," said this studiously modest Messiah of $25 dividends, "there will...
Died. Walter Williams, 71, onetime (1931-34) president of University of Missouri, founder & longtime dean of its pioneer School of Journalism; in Columbia...
...Frederick Hunter. He had been toughened to politics by public school administration in Nebraska and California. In seven years as Chancellor he had done a good, progressive job of building University of Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies," said he. "What has been...