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...Fram relief within the terms of the Constitution should be substituted for the recent AAA, in the opinion of Levertett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House and candidate for the Republican nomination for governor...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Williams Rodenberg, pt. pt., Mackessey Lowenberg, c. pt. c. pt., Sharp Field, 1d. 1d., Lounsbury Jackson, 2d. 2d., Rougvie Wilder, 3d. 3d., Riggs Pattison, c. c., White Harris, 3a. 3a., Paola Abramovitch, Keck, 2a. 2a., Strickland Winslow, Cochrane, 1a. 1a., Stafford Kuhl. i.h. i.h., Dane Lay, o.h. o.h., Fram...
...North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained; a year later he was picked up by the Jackson- Harmsworth expedition. Recently, he has been more famed as a diplomat and relief expert-half Viking, half Herbert Hoover...
Early in April, notices of a 10% wage-cut were posted in the textile mills of New Bedford, Mass. Out walked the workers. Last week, the eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall...