Word: corals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explored the Great Barrier Reef, 1,200-mi. coral band fringing northeast Australia, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Leader of the expedition was Dr. C. M. Yonge, Englishman, whose essays on marine science, Vueer Fish, Brentano's has just published ($2.50). Mrs. Harvey, as Dr. Ethel Nicholson Browne, taught biology at Wellesley and Cornell until their marriage in 1916. They live at Princeton, have two sons...
Died. Thomas ("Fatty") Walsh, alleged narcotic ringmaster, onetime bodyguard of the late murdered Manhattan gambler, Arnold Rothstein; by murder; in the Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables...
...public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with indignation a statement made by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the reaction to Mr. Smith's defeat "can only be compared to that which followed the theft of the Presidency in the case of Mr. Tilden...
...days before the Hoover arrival in Miami, police went to the Coral Gables Kennel Club and arrested Restaurant Cashier Willis Callahan, Dancing Teacher Thomas Mulligan, Tailorman Jacob B. Sommers. They were charged with "conspiring to do bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained...
...consider for a moment that the tourist from beyond the Alps and beyond the ocean is a consumer, is a purchaser. Perhaps they don't buy many shoes or clothes, but they buy a great deal of luggage and many things, including Venetian shawls, Roman scarfs, alabaster, coral and tortoise shell. Perhaps they don't buy steamships, but they are passengers therein, and thereby they enable us to construct big de luxe liners. They don't buy locomotives or coaches, but they use them and thereby enable us to build* them. . . . "To whom are you going...