Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make his trip a complete success. At 7:15 a. m. after an early breakfast the Indianapolis and Chester anchored and while the destroyer Phelps sped north with pouches of Presidential mail, four small boats were lowered and Franklin Roosevelt in one of them spent three hours catching 34 fish, chiefly pompano and barracuda...
...George V. Brown, who runs Boston's Garden. Obsessed by the idea of a wintersports show in his father's amphitheatre, Walter Brown was foiled by the problem of how to get snow indoors without importing it at prohibitive expense until one day, passing a Boston fish store, he noticed a handsome cod packed in ice that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding machine. Walter Brown ordered bigger copies that would grind ice smaller. Last week it took 500 tons...
...over. The American history course this year is dramatizing the past of eleven U. S. cities. The Science Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish in a pan of deaerated water to prove that fish must breathe. The geography course recounts the travels of an imaginary Hamilton family, conveniently consisting of one child in each age group and Grandmother Hamilton, who provides learned commentary on places from Bogota to Baffin Island where Mr. Hamilton "has business." Enormously popular, the American School...
...Fish in correct in saying that Mr. Hamilton was wrong when he attacked the social security tax on employees, and when he charged the New Deal with being Communistic. But on May 1, 1935, in a New York radio speech, Fish himself declared that Roosevelt had "within 6 months. . brought to Washington a lot of radicals, Socialists, or near Communists." In short, he is condemning Hamilton for doing the same thing that he did himself...
...attacks on the national chairman have come almost entirely from Representative Fish, whose past record makes his charges look like an about face and cheap opportunism. Hamilton has more energy and organizing ability than any other recent chairman. His speeches were forceful, clear, and had the necessary punch to carry a point. Unless some dark horse, with superhuman ability, should make his appearance, the Republicans should be grateful for the aggressive leadership of John Hamilton...