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...England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. He is also treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when he failed to appear at a session of the Massachusetts...
Lastly, we come to the regulation and improvement of the social conditions. All reform should be amended only in the statutes after the most careful deliberation and investigation. This canniest be effected by official inquiry, for individual research never would have the same success as an investigation backed by the government...