Word: poles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That each took care to have no competent witness of his "arrival" at the Pole...
...Sept. 1, 1909, word of Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed the public a gold brick...
...That Peary had previously shown himself unreliable by claiming, on Green-TIME, December 4, 1939 land expeditions, discovery of "Peary Channel" and "Crocker Land" which subsequent travelers found were not there at all; that there were many discrepancies in his Pole story, that he contradicted himself many times in verbal testimony...
...That Peary never admitted that his book on the attainment of the Pole was ghostwritten...
...question thus became, not "Who got there first?" but "Did anybody get there at all?" Perhaps neither Cook nor Peary first saw the North Pole: perhaps it was first sighted, from the relatively cozy cabin of an airplane, by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett...