Word: haddock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Secretary of Commerce Lament said fishing was in the soundest position of its history. Some 127,000 commercial fishermen catch three billion pounds of fish annually. The catch is valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries...
Died. George T. Stallings, 63, of Haddock, Ga., oldtime baseballer, the man whose skill raised the Boston Braves from bottom to top of the National League in 1914, and won the World Series; at Haddock...
...North Dakota, Walter Haddock, the Non-Partisan who became Governor last month when Republican Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie died, received Nominee Smith at Bismarck (the capital), shook the Smith hand, rode on the Smith Special. But he would only say that 80% of the North Dakota farmers were for Smith and that he (Maddock) was for the farmers. Friends said Governor Maddock was being careful for Nominee Smith's sake because he, too, is a Roman Catholic. Others said: "Maddock is out for himself only...
Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...
...confused with Author Donald Ogden Stewart (Parody Outline of History, Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad, etc.) *Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. ?Mayor Walker was in Europe...