Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his spare time, of which he generally has little, Dr. Poling writes novels which he signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers...
...inhabitants last week sought to prevent planes flying low and landing in their Long Island Sound harbor...
...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
...copy of a Medici palace with open court; and pool on Diamond Head; 2) A copy of a Japanese home which was brought overseas piece by piece, including rocks and moss for decoration, at Waikiki; 3) A mountain home high up on the Punchbowl; 4) A cottage at Pearl Harbor, for sailing; 5) A million-dollar ranch for fine; horses and huge houseparties. So open-handed...
Said Chicago's Republican Tribune: "If Mrs. Hoover's Southern tea party has driven the Southern fanatics away from union with Northern fanatics, it has been the best use of tea since the night it was thrown into Boston Harbor...