Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size of California and Texas combined-with a white population of perhaps 3,000 people...
...United States Supreme Court and the subsequent storm that has arisen over the question of the appointee's affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan combine to create a situation packed with sufficient dynamite to blast the President's popularity from under him, in the opinion of a prominent Pacific Coast publisher and politician...
President Roosevelt, the Pacific Coast publisher feels, consulted virtually no one about the appointment. "I happen to know for a fact," he said, "that Black himself did not know he was even being considered until about 24 hours before the nomination was sent to the Senate." The Klan issue, he declared, was discussed but briefly during the Senate confirmation, and the fact that the Administration rushed the upper House's proceedings "won't help either...
...Coast editor, agreeing with Senator Carter Glass, does not see how the Alabama Senator can be kept off the bench now if he refuses to resign. "Of course, there is always the constitutional question--that is whether or not, Black's voting for the full-salary pension, renders him unqualified, constitutionally, for the post. But that's up to the Court itself to decide...
...prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust Co., in Newark. Last fortnight Feigenspan thought they had received the sure winner in this category: Russell C. Speck...