Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no Fairbankses in Fairbanks, Morse today-only Morses. President Robert Hosmer Morse is the son of the founder of the Midwest division, which outstripped and later absorbed Vermont's old E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Tall, heavy, hard-driving and a judge of good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel...
Meantime, Herbert Hoover, traveling eastward for a little fishing in Vermont, continued to make headlines by running into more Republican friends, including Governor Charles M. Smith; going to Plymouth, standing with bowed head at the grave of Calvin Coolidge...
...basis of records, Harvard, which is in second place in the Intercollegiate League, has the edge over the Jumbos, who have won both their games, beating Vermont 17-8, and Northeastern 7-5, but Coach Ken Nash, the wily Tufts mentor, invariably brings teams that must be reckoned with...
From the rich soil of Kansas as many meteorites have been recovered as from Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Washington, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada combined. To many a Kansan his State seems to be the favorite landing place for footloose fragments of the universe...
...Vermont stonecutter, Tabor went West in 1855, opened a general store, made $1,300,000 out of a $64 grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde...