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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty ships a week is considered a high production figure. ... G. R. HUNTER...
...certainly graphically, the intimate home life of the whale. He jibes with the sharks you mention in saying that killing whales at that time is extremely easy (though he deplores the necessity!). By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain George Fred was a close observer. . . . R. G. M. Flushing, L. I. Trumpeter
Through the thinning blue ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered last week in Portland, Me., for its 63rd encampment, throbbed a momentous, oft-recurring question. President Hoover, who loves the South, and 31 State Governors, had recommended a grand joint reunion of the G. A. R. and the United Veterans of the Confederacy. Richard A. Sneed, Commander-in-Chief of the U. V. C., in the first official communication ever sent by his organization to the G. A. R., had warmly acquiesced. Octogenarian John Reese of Broken Bow, Neb., Commander-in-Chief of the G...
...bring in young blood the G. A. R. elected as next year's Commander-in-Chief Edward J. Foster of Worcester, Mass., who, 15 at the end of the war, is now a mere 79. Cincinnati was selected for next year's encampment. Bustling with plans for the future, the Grand Army steadfastly ignored the fact that more than 1,000 of their number are dying every month...
Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...