Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by Paul Radia (Liveright, $2.50). If you've been doing a lot of wondering about the why's and where-fore's of the American Indian, you will gain some real dope from this matter-of-fact account of their origin, development, and . From "The Golden Day" to "The Heel of the Conqueror", the chapters lead the reader through a complete record of the original Americans. It is filled with historical fact, completely annotated, bibliographed, and indexed...
...picture gets a dole, why, that's terrible! And yet I spoke to a man recently who never worked a day in his life. And what a dole he gets from checks, dividends, interest payments and the like! Perhaps $500,000 to $600,000 a year. We've got to bring those two types of dole closer together...
...garrulous stunter, Dr. Brock is reticent, conservative, not fond of publicity. Wealthy at 45, he pooh-poohs the suggestion that he has demonstrated the safety & dependability of aviation, likes to say: "I've done it because I get a kick out of it. I just got in the habit of flying every day and I haven't quit. When I get tired of it, I'll drop...
Business was slow the last year of the Civil War but Truckson La France of Elmira, N. Y. had an idea. He put on his best bowler and went to call on the rich Diven family. "I've perfected a rotary fire engine," he announced. "I want money to make it with." With a snort Old Man Diven gave him the money. Inventor La France made his first fire engine in an old brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams...
Marshal: Warship or no warship, I've got this writ and by golly I'm going to serve...