Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cape Kronotsky Any U. S. citizen who is qualified to order a Businessman's Lunch knows one of the most important products of Russo-Japanese commerce: crabmeat salad. Tinned crabmeat sold in the U. S. comes from the terrible nippers of huge sea crabs (Tarabha ) that breed in the cold rocky inlets of Russia's Kamchatka. They are caught offshore by Japanese fishermen...
...almost every week for the past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi...
...Harvard Commencement, officially opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...
...breakfasting aboard his private car in Boston's old South Station when his eldest Son James climbed aboard to report on the state of the family. James, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, 25, is already beginning to acquire the manner of a substantial citizen of Boston, as well he may, having been for three years in the insurance business (now a Travelers' agent). Happy is his family life with his Wife Betsey, daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. James had much to detail to his father: How the summer house he had rented...
...Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...