Word: fishermen
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Sworn in as Finance Minister, to take the lead out of Canada's pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
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...
...Jackspot," a shoal 22 miles off Ocean City, Md., fishermen last week repeatedly broke the record for numbers of white marlin boated in one day out of one port. From 41 the record leaped to 73, to 123. Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt had his sea gear loaded aboard the Potomac, sped to "The Jackspot" for the weekend. Trolling from the Potomac's stern, while men all around him caught marlin, Mr. Roosevelt got skunked...
...took place last week when the B. & O. R. R., encouraged by the success of ski and bicycle trains, inaugurated a fishing special from Chicago to Annapolis, Md. (850 mi.) for a week-end of saltwater angling in Chesapeake Bay. Of the 52 Midwest lake-fishermen (48 men and four wives) who made the trip, 40 had never even seen salt water. Returning home with 700 fish, mostly hardheads and croakers, the first batch of angling excursionists felt quite satisfied that they had $40 worth...
This week in the little French village of La Napoule in the Alpes Maritimes, townspeople and fishermen streamed across the Place Henry Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried just two years. Four thousand miles away, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, some of Henry Clews's countrymen also paid their respects, by viewing a memorial exhibition of his sculpture...