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Four years later came the next ocean race, with the 108-ft. English schooner Cambria beating the U. S. schooner Dauntless from Ireland to Sandy Hook by only 1 hr., 43 min. Two Dauntless seamen were lost...
...heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special...
...latter, a devout Episcopalian, greeted Bishop Ryan as one born Midwesterner to another, said: "The land which you left to come East 14 years ago has changed considerably in those years. We need pioneers. To enter upon this new world calls for an adventuresome spirit, for dauntless courage. The world of which I am speaking is just finding itself. Torn by doubts and uncertainty, by unemployment and financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts...
...others slept in hammocks. One day, to Roosevelt's surprise. Rondon revived flagging spirits by erecting a sign naming the river "Rio Roosevelt" by authority of the Brazilian Government. The party cheered bravely and went on. When they finally sighted the first outpost huts of rubber-gatherers, the dauntless Rough Rider was prostrate in the bottom of a covered canoe with a bad abscess of the knee. He found that his river flowed into the Madeira, which in turn flowed into the Amazon...
...campaigned up and down this state driving his own flivver, speaking two and three hours at a time then hurrying to some other locality for another speech, and he has charmed and thrilled the masses with his scintillating intellect, his wit, and humor, his Irish pathos, and his dauntless determination to serve his fellow countrymen. He has had arrayed against him nearly every newspaper, practically all the wealth, and influential politicians of the state. ... I dare say, his victory in this campaign will go clown in American history as the very greatest that any officeholder has ever achieved...