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...Institute expects to return to greater emphasis on training "scientific geographers" and encouraging them with funds and instruments to undertake explorations into the far corners of the earth. In the peace time years of the late twenties and early thirties expeditions traveled to Alaska, China, Cuba, and South America. Bradford Washburn, former instructor at the Institutes who scaled many northern peaks is now designing clothing for the Quartermaster Corps to be used by our Article troops...
...Bradford Affair...
Blueblood Bradford won his reputation in two terms as District Attorney of Middlesex County, which surrounds Boston on the north with slums, farms and villages. In this time he sent the mayors of Cambridge and Lowell, and the State Commissioner of Public Works, to jail. (The mayor of Marlboro, another Bradford target, killed himself.) Bradford was re-elected with the biggest majority in Middlesex history (he had twice the lead of his fellow blueblood, Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who headed the ticket...
Four months ago, Bradford began campaigning for Lieutenant Governor, a spot traditionally reserved for men who have served first in the State Legislature, and then worked up either as Speaker of the House or President of the Senate. Outraged by this audacity, both the Speaker and the Senate President ran against him. Result: last week Bradford got more votes than both the escalator candidates and two other opponents combined...
...Bradford now had to take his place on the escalator again; the Lieutenant-Governorship is the next-to-last step. If he wins in the November finals (as seems likely), Massachusetts may some day have its second Governor Bradford in 300 years...