Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a brawny fisherman felt like a minnow last week as he read about the feat of a handsome Miami girl named Frances Laidlaw. With a 3-ounce bait-casting rod and a small bait-casting reel which held 85 yards of No. 6-thread linen line-about the same tackle appropriate to sporty bass fishing-loa-lb. Frankie Laidlaw had landed a tarpon weighing...
Just when the Post Office was congratulating itself on having thus got some of its air mail subsidy bait back, news came from London that in June Imperial Airways expects to start flying mail over the Atlantic to Canada for 12? a half-ounce. This would be less than half the rate the U. S. had figured on if and when some U. S. airline decides to start flying the Atlantic. Only way to meet such a British rate would be to pay carriers the difference in outright subsidy, such as Imperial now enjoys...
...when Nazi agents, using Memel as a base, may harass President Smetona into resigning or recalling Valdemaras. In either case the probable result will be the same: the Lithuanian Government will follow Hitler's orders, will accept German annexation of Memel, and, with Vilna held before it as bait, will like Czecho-Slovakia become a stooge for Germany...
Meantime, Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
...seat in Congress. Mr. Dies lately has given the U. S. a Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing...