Word: valley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsequent disappearance with every cent I had, would be too long to go into here. ... I may say, though, that in the course of the evening we bought a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 17 in which there was published an article on the Matanuska Valley colony by this eminent authority on the subject. Too, he showed me numerous articles of the same nature which he had written, and which he had planned to peddle about to different papers. As he so originally expressed it, "they were going like hot cakes'. I can't write them...
When a young man who said he was Pledge Brown from the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle some months ago offered us a yarn on New Deal's Matanuska Valley as "new stuff . . . I'm full of it ... great for a Republican sheet," the Daily Courier's wise, white-haired Managing Editor E. R. Moore politely declined, later explained it didn't ring true...
Deeply religious, Lawrence Saint attributes his artistic success to trust in the Lord, has for 15 years faithfully discharged his duties as elder at the Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, rests after Sunday service, sleeps with black goggles to shield his candid blue eyes, which are abnormally sensitive to light. For recreation, he interprets handwriting and plays such hymns as Oh Happy Day that Fixed My Choice and I Was a Wandering Sheep on his mouth organ...
...stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could...
...Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur Pledge Brown, worked his way across the U. S., partly by passing bad checks and thieving, but mostly by selling his stock article on Matanuska Valley to "at least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star...