Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That New Dealer was Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 44, Utah banker who since last January has served Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a special assistant. Grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a rich & pious Mormon, Governor Eccles graduated from Brigham Young College at 19, promptly went to Scotland as a missionary. As if to allay fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came...
...recent films, is again the scene of entertainment at the Fine Arts Theatre this week. The recent trend of events in Germany cannot but increase the interest that is aroused by "Power," also called in book-form, "Jew Suss." Suss as depicted by Conrad Veldt is a pioneer of Jewish emancipation in Germany. Veidt does full justice to the part, which unless capably played, is not an entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly a lovable character: yet Veidt makes him so. An orchid...
...discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener...
...Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches on occasion, edits Der Sonntagsgast (The Sunday Visitor) in German which he had to learn years ago. A pioneer advocate of weekday religious instruction for children, Dr. Wenner has written many a tome, still doaders gently among his books and papers. Last week he spoke briefly at Christ Church at an anniversary service which was much more quiet than the one on his birthday last May. Of his long...
Qualifications: "Comes from rugged pioneer stock--seafarers and pioneers of Cape...