Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...Festival at Ann Arbor last week was there for his 30th session. He looked old and stooped but his performances never lagged. When he came to the U. S., a violinist from the Cologne Orchestra in Germany, his first boss had been Chicago's Theodore Thomas, pioneer among U. S. orchestra-builders. After morning rehearsals, Conductor Thomas and young Frederick Stock went often to Zum Rothen Stern (now the Red Star Inn) on Chicago's North Clark Street. There, over many a bottle of wine, Conductor Thomas told his protege how he had left New York...
...ambitious Kirkland divot-diggers received another set-back on the links yesterday afternoon at the hands of a Pioneer golf team which showed one of its better brands of playing in the mud and rain, and came through to humble the Deacons...
...public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country. A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFING-H. A. Overstreet-Norton ($2). Hints on how to occupy the New Leisure, by a bright writer. NINE ETCHED...
...Equatorial Africa as agent for a lumber company he returned to France, got his medical license, satisfied a desire to see the U. S. by working as ship's doctor on a transatlantic liner. A more serious medico than his creature, he wrote a brilliant thesis on a pioneer in obstetrics, was sent to Africa again by the League of Nations to make a study of sleeping sickness. Now a respected 40-year-old, he works in the tuberculosis clinic of a hospital in the Paris slums. Though his language is racy, writing comes hard to Dr. Destouches...