Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...transporting of the heavy loads of material up the side of the mountain through wind, rain and the heartbreaking drag of the slush and melting ice calls for hard work and lots of it. . . . Captain Bob Bartlett. . . is on the job all day long, encouraging, joking with them and occasionally rewarding them with a cup of coffee or sugar or tobacco...
Eastman Dissent. Such a lax attitude by a majority of the I. C. C. produced a stinging dissent from the merger plan by Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman. As the "radical" member of the Commission, Mr. Eastman delivered a long economic treatise in which he declared...
...Frederick Bethune Bartlett, Episcopal Bishop of North Dakota...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...