Word: settler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there. National Distillers has 2.000,000 gal. impounded. Until they pay Governor Pinchot some $14,000,000 cash they cannot touch it. Every distillery in the State shut down tight last week. Thousands of men were summarily discharged, grain and fuel orders canceled. Distillers felt like the settler whose axle broke just before the bugle blew...
Another Baruch Man. Leaving pacification of the coal industry to General Johnson and his codemakers, President Roosevelt's new National Labor Board got off to a good start last week as a strike- settler in other troubled fields. Without waiting for New York's Senator Wagner, the regular chairman, to return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins...
...hundred years ago last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December...
...went to Amherst, dashed 100 yd. in 10.2 sec., won the heavyweight boxing championship of the college, got his A.B. in 1883. After a law course in Chicago young Rainey began to practice at Carrollton, the town in which his mother's father was the first settler. He married a Nebraska girl named Ella McBride, got himself elected to Congress from Abraham Lincoln's old district...
...cave abandoned by Eskimos, dug himself in before the polar storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below. Though lonely and cold the life was Eskimo...