Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great figures of the Spanish-American War only William Randolph Hearst, who headlined the country into war, and the Lindbergh of 1898, Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago harbor, are alive (Hero Hobson is now a Prohibition and antinarcotic lecturer- TIME, March 2). All the others- Roosevelt, Dewey, Shafter, Leonard Wood, Sampson. Schley, even Col. William Jennings Bryan of the Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave...
This was foxy Machado's greatest victory, and he brought back his prisoners in triumph. The Fernandez Quevedo came into Havana harbor early in the morning. Photographers and newsreel men were there on orders to take the prisoners pictures, broadcast them to the villages where the insurrectos still held out. There was no hint of the shark slide for the captured leaders. On the contrary a great show of courtesy was made-the duration of which would doubtless match the duration of the revolt. Havana regarded Machado's triumph sourly. There were no cheers, there were no crowds...
...tyro at power and waterway questions is Senator McDougald, onetime medical student who made a fortune in gold and married rich Miss Mary Hannan. He was chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board from 1922 until late in 1930. His experience in such matters caused his appointment to the Canadian National Committee, an advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good...
...while Chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board, Senator McDougald had conferred privately with Robert Alexander Cecil Henry, later Deputy Minister of Railways & Canals, regarding a power development in Beauharnois County. Privately he offered Mr. Henry $10,000 for the formation of a power company. In 1924 Mr. Henry incorporated Sterling Industrial Corp. In that year, about two months after Mr. McDougald was appointed to the St. Lawrence Advisory Committee, the Sterling Company applied for power rights between Lakes St. Louis and St. Francis. After Mr. McDougald became Senator, the Beauharnois Power Co., supposedly because of this prior claim ("nuisance value...
...would be possible, said Dr. Clarence Cook Little, 1925-29 president of the University of Michigan, since 1929 student of mouse heredity at Bar Harbor, Me., "to pick the most reactive mice or chickens or dogs by the method we use today to pick our college students and by which we retain them. . . . Co-education is not safe at the present time. . . . Most of the problems of our American students arise from unwise or stupid use of their leisure time...