Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nikolai A. Borodin, formerly of the Petrograd Agricultural College, will give an illustrated lecture, today, at 4 o'clock, in room 402, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The lecture, presented under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, will be on two subjects: "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" and "Fisheries...
...outgoing President? Probably not, for Mr. Hoover is ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed...
Brule. The vacation at Brule, Wis., was the happiest of all. The choose had finally been accepted. Hoover was nominated. There were fish, lots of them, to be caught. President Coolidge could and did say to news-cameramen: "Mr. Hoover won't carry on his end of the conversation...
...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
Turnips, celery and onions were hotly discussed. Congressman Fish (New York) pleaded with the Committee to give special attention to a high duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers...