Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To help settle the Briggs strike, one of the Depression's most ominous threats, the U. S. Department of Labor sent its Field Commissioner Robert M. Pilkington, 58, onetime superintendent of an Indiana iron foundry and of the Labor Department's employment service. He is a quiet, even...
With smaller resources than his father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into...
Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia...
Near Bowling Green, Ohio, 800 ugly-tempered farmers last week assembled at Wallace Kramp's place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15? for a spring harrow. When the company's representative raised it to $1.35, somebody shouted: "That's the...
MARY LINCOLN-Carl Sandburg & Paul M. Angle-Ear court, Brace ($3). In Chicago's big pan. 15 years ago. one of the brightest literary flashes was Poet Carl Sandburg. His precepts (such as his famed definition of poetry as "the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits") were...