Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Checked over his Christmas-tree business on his 1,077 Hyde Park acres; selected especially perfect pines for Christmas gifts; sent 500 to the market...
...years Joseph Vincent Connolly plugged for Hearst, always hard, sometimes brilliantly. He signed up Bob ("Believe It Or Not") Ripley, saw that Popeye starred in Elzie Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre, sent H. R. Knickerbocker to Vladivostok in 1931 because Knickerbocker, long before it broke, smelled an Incident in Manchuria...
...Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...
Frost. It was a States reporter who last June unearthed the scandal in Louisiana's administration that sent President James Monroe Smith of Louisiana State University to prison, and so far has brought four other convictions in New Orleans alone on charges of fraud. One day Reporter Meigs Frost (who once got honorable mention for a Pulitzer Prize) heard that WPA materials from the University's carpentry shops were going into a private home at Metairie, a rich New Orleans suburb in adjoining Jefferson Parish...
...fifty successful aspirants was unfortunate but excusable, considering the exacting requirements necessary for such a course. But subsequent snags have not been so pardonable. The worst instance has been the delay of six whole weeks in actual fight instruction that occurred while the list of chosen men, sent to Washington for approval, lay buried in the offices...