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Word: pioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street." His gubernatorial platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oklahoma's Choice | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Pioneer Assassin | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...child, adopt the infant and seem delighted with her actions. A trivial contribution to the cinema's dossier on bastardy, Dr. Monica serves to demonstrate the versatility of Warner's latest star, Jean Muir. who was the patient-faced farm girl in .45 the Earth Turns, a pioneer's daughter in The World Changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...when all other prices were melting, the hard-eyed Manhattan Irishman turned to the one thing that was bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect the Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth $25,000. Back on the Exchange floor he wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend Stuyvesant Fish decided a gilded paving stone would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Edward Lee Thorndike: Educational psychologist, the foremost American pioneer in developing those new types of measurement which supplement our older forms of examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING | 6/21/1934 | See Source »

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