Word: fish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt toiled late aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa as it carved the midnight waves to Red Bank, N. J. last week. Fog and finicky fish had spoiled his vacation cruise to Newfoundland. Now another European convulsion had ended it a day early. Franklin Roosevelt sat up late working on an idea of his own: a peace plea to King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy, who was trout fishing in the Alps...
...days later-three days before his deadline-he rose before the Interparliamentarians and, with a wild look in his eye, proposed a 30-day moratorium during which Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy would talk things over; if the four powers failed, said Ham Fish, the problem should be refered to the Kings of Norway and of the Belgians and the President of Switzerland...
...Union gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the whole thing...
Because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked, the giant broadbill swordfish, one of the seas' sportiest inhabitants, is the most difficult fish to take on rod & reel. Although more than 5,000,000 pounds of swordfish are harpooned by commercial fishermen off the Atlantic Coast every year, no more than a baker's dozen are caught by Atlantic anglers...
...Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood, N. J., headed Englewood's City Planning Commission for four years, took part in many...