Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resigned. Lee Wilder Maxwell, 55; from the board chairmanship of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home) which he had held since 1934; in Manhattan...
When the 1930 census revealed that the "vanishing" Indian was in fact becoming more numerous, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier attributed his increase, not to fertility, but to the fact that the Government's census takers had worked more diligently than in 1920, found noses to count that had been missed before...
Last week Commissioner Collier had more Indian news. With 3,500 more births than deaths each year, Indians are increasing at a more rapid rate than any other racial group in the U. S., he announced. Again, to the surprise of conclusion-jumpers, Commissioner Collier did not ascribe the increase to the redman's fecundity. Fewer deaths, not more births, accounted for the increase...
...unavailingly against the superior force of the American Fleet, under the command of that gallant and chivalrous Spanish gentleman and brilliant officer Admiral Cervera, who justly gave merited praise to the handsome manner in which Lieutenant Hobson executed a most difficult and hazardous maneuver, under which the unarmed, frail collier was subjected to what was probably the heaviest fire ever concentrated upon a single ship, before or since...
...harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight of the ten torpedoes with which Hobson had planned to scuttle his ship refused to explode. The Spaniards were execrable marksmen, but they shot away his rudder chains...