Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Navy Yard was forced to default a rowing race against the U. S. Coast Guard in Boston Harbor. Reason: The Navy had no rowboat...
Thus, last week in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people...
...allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate of 30% for Protestant attendance (men & women). U. S. female churchgoing, high in the East and South, drops in the Midwest, sinks to 26% on the Pacific Coast. According to the survey, U. S. women believe in God (91%). Though most do not attend church, 75% believe that children should receive religious training...
...jaunt to the west coast, James M. Landis, professor of Legislation and Dean of the Faculty of Law, will address Stanford University lawyers and alumni at a banquet at Palo Alto this Sunday...
...Coast guardsmen and Seattle harbor patrol beats attached lines to the plane and towed it ashore. The women could not be revived. The victims were Mrs. Ome Daiber and Miss Dorothy Matthews of Seattle. Mrs. Daiber's husband accompanied Washburn on previous Alaskan expeditions. Miss Matthews was engaged to Borrows...