Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Reporter Johnston, who does his own legwork and his own checking, was surprised but not fazed by reactions to his story. From the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was undergoing treatment for a stomach ulcer, the President's son authorized the statement that he "naturally is indignant over certain outright misrepresentations . . . he has requested his attorneys to consider the matter for future conference." Mr. Johnston's comment was: "Let 'em sue. I have only scratched the surface on Jimmy." Young Roosevelt as a whiskey insurance man and Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
...were Harry Snyder, wealthy Chicago oilman, and George G. Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, after a grueling specimen-hunting expedition which set a record for distance covered in northwest Canada-7,000 miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole...