Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zebulon M. Pike rests in a military cemetery at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...
...Charleston, S. C., last week came 1,500 members of the National Foreign Trade Council to the 13th annual convention. While their wives and families proved the famed hospitality of Charleston, visited the harbor islands and other local landmarks, the delegates buckled down to business at their headquarters in the Francis Marion hotel. There were three general and seven group sessions, all addressed by notable authorities on foreign trade...
American Samoa contains Pago-Pago,* perhaps the most valuable harbor in the Pacific, ceded over to the U.S. by the native king in 1872. Samoa later became a U.S. dependency under a tripartite agreement with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
...Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...
...course there are many who scruple at the publicity complex so manifest in Mr. Mencken's case. Yet, for once, the gentleman for Baltimore is on the side of sanity and discretion. If Boston is to harbor Tartuffes, it is well to be aware of the fact here, that one may protect oneself against them. And since the Watch and Ward Society is firmly established it is evident that Mr. Mencken is waging justified, protective warfare. Ethics are not the most facilely adjusted elements in any urban administration. Yet an occasional acquaintance with them hurts no one. Ward bosses...