Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from...
Captured at 18 by the Caughnawaga Indians, young Smith ran the gauntlet at Fort Duquesne. There he witnessed raiding parties returning with the scalps of General Braddock's massacred army, the slow burning alive of nine prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...
...Black Boys' third and last attack on Fort Loudon was for the purpose of getting back eight guns confiscated from the first prisoners. After a two-day attack the Fort ran up a white flag, surrendered the guns. In addition Commandant Grant agreed to evacuate the Fort altogether, acting on orders from General Gage, who considered it was the simplest...
...Born in Maryland in 1834 he arrived in Chicago at 21, got a job as bookkeeper in a wholesale dry goods house. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Levi, then 26, was no patriotic fool. While the blood of other men his age ran red from Bull Run to Appomattox he grew so rich selling goods to the Government that in 1865 he was able to plunk $130,000 alongside Marshall Field's $160,000 to buy partnerships in the dry-goods business that became Field, Leiter & Co. and eventually Marshall Field...
...work on King John. As the result of this radical coaching the King soon had his ministers half crazy with alarm. When they tried to maneuver an election to hamstring the power of the church, the King sided with the bishops. He attended a racy play. When he ran out of his own arguments, he borrowed his son's. Discovering a knack for writing his own speeches, he dug into history books for precedents to back his aggressive stand. His popularity with the people was going sky high...