Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby...
...their championship under a new coach named Buck Walsh, Navy's oarsmen spent an afternoon at Kingston, 15 miles away, watching Max Schmeling train for his heavyweight championship fight against Jack Sharkey. In the Columbia boathouse last week there was no electric light, no telephone. The crewmen went to bed early, rose with the sun, let their beards grow long, wore as few clothes as possible...
...Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...
...soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired to bed...
...these things might happen, but meanwhile the Junta appointed a successor to Don Carlos: Minister of the Interior Rolando Merino. General Puga arose from his sick bed. Senor Davila's mild methods of socialization, it was said, were the cause of his fall, but the Junta announced its regime would receive his support. Only new indication of policy was that the Government would delay converting the Banco Central into a State institution. It was reported that Aurelio Munez Morgado, strongly antagonistic to "Co-sach," would supervise Chile's nitrate industry. But Chile's Government late last week...