Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference he discussed instead the high price of carrots and celery with Correspondent May Craig of Maine. From another press conference he absented himself, letting Secretary Steve Early do the honors. At week's end he showed himself at the President's Cup speed boat regatta on the Potomac but paid small attention to the races. Europe was on his mind. Returning from the races, the President again saw Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (fresh back from Paris), then Secretary Morgenthau. After dinner, from 10 p. m. until past midnight, he sat alone in his study...
...Haines, coach of the 150's, will tell about the Harvard lightweights at the Henley regatta accompanied by motion pictures of the event. Pictures of last June's Harvard-Yale race will also be shown. Bolles has announced that fall training for all men will begin tomorrow at Newell Boat House...
...Boat Houses--of which there are two, Weld for individual scullers and Newell for the crews...
...Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able to throw...
...Alaskan salmon runs in the early 1900s. Whenever Akim Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else's fish trap, they were lynched. When Akim Tamiroff's insults became too much for a man to bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate himself to atone for his evil ways, he steered Akim's schooner into the side of a glacier, where it was crunched beneath icebergs like a toy boat...