Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing tour of the West Coast, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Spokane, Wash. He sneered: "Why, you can get more fish within 75 miles of the Waldorf-Astoria* than you can out here...
...major U. S. diversion was trying to guess the precise significance of President Coolidge's famed "I do not choose to run." The Senate passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Robert La Follette, against Presidential third terms. On this precedent last week, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, whose Congressional district includes Hyde Park, introduced a resolution that made interesting reading for his most famed constituent "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part...
...ller, fiery ex-U-boat commander arrested last March on "still more serious charges." Since Dr. Niemoller has long been the spearhead of the Confessional movement many Churchmen regarded the unexceptionable handling of Dr. Dibelius' trial as disingenuous window-dressing, wherein the Nazis deliberately threw a small fish back into the pond, while they went right ahead with their plans to land a whale...
...Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening in the diplomatic box: "I promise before Allah the Almighty to observe the Constitution and laws of the Egyptian people and to maintain the national independence and integrity of their territory...
...pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith was offered round-trip accommodations. He said "How do we know we're coming back?" scribbled a check for $2,000 for the one-way tickets...