Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yearling tells the story of one year in the life of a towheaded, lively 12-year-old named Jody Baxter. The Baxter clearing is even more remote than that of most crackers, but in his own eyes Jody lives an eventful life. There is no school within reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River...
...Security is more than just the defense of the territory on this continent," said James P. Baxter, 3rd, speaking to the Naval ROTC in Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon. Baxter, now President of Williams College, was until this year Master of Adams House and associate professor of History...
Naval powers do have an influence on the outcome of wars, Baxter declared, pointing to the development of navies in history. He laid the present international crisis in armaments to the tearing up of post-war treaties and to the collapse of the European balance of power...
Continuing his discussion of some aspects of American naval policy, Baxter warned that "they can't get us by land, but they can get us by air." Against this danger he advocated a ring of defense extending from the Aleutian Islands, through the Sandwich Islands and Samoa to the Panama Canal Zone...
...clock this afternoon the Vagabond will splash his way through the Cambridge slush to hear President James Phinney Baxter, 3d of Williams speak on "Some Aspects of American Naval Policy" in the New Lecture Hall...