Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors current in several Boston newspapers yesterday to the effect that A. E. French '29, captain of last season's football team, would coach the Freshman gridiron players next fall, received neither confirmation nor denial from the Harvard authorities...
...actually present when General Nobile and his companions came to grief can rightly judge of the events that followed or can say whether or not Nobile is to be blamed for being the first to leave the ice floe," declared Captain. E. P. Lundborg, who last summer flew to the rescue of Umberto Nobile of the dirigible, Italia, wrecked in the Arctic...
Infielders: J. J. Carver '30, Captain G. E. Donaghey '29, E. H. McGrath H. F. E. Nugent '29, and J. A. Prior 29. Outfielders: B. H. Bassett '31, R. E. Durkee '29, B. B. Ticknor '31, E. R. Todd '29, and A. G. Whitney...
...Alone's, skipper, Captain John T. Randell, 49, a Canadian, told his story in New Orleans. Loaded with 2,800 cases of "assorted liquor," his schooner, he said, was "anchored 14½ to 15 miles offshore" when approached by the Walcott. He did not heave to because he did not think the U.S. had jurisdiction. His ship, he figured, went down 225 miles offshore in a heavy sea under 120 U.S. shots. The drowned negro, one Leon Mainjoy, was a French citizen...
...Samuel Dodsworth was, perfectly, the American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariff, and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in prohibition and the Episcopal Church. He was the president of the Revelation Motor Company; he was a millionaire, though decidedly not a multimillionaire; his large house was on Ridge Crest, the most fashionable street in Zenith; he had some taste in etchings; he did not split many infinitives; and he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven. He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen...