Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appropriately born at Quincy, at ten he was scudding over Quincy Bay in a sail boat, out to Hangman's Island, where his father doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper...
Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...
Other, almost forgotten sources of Lindbergh income are royalties from the sale of his book We, pay from the New York Times for articles signed by him and duty-pay from the Missouri National Guard in which he is a colonel. For flying from Long Island to Paris he received $25,000 from Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Philadelphia ; for his Good Will flight over Mexico and Central America, $25,000 from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation...
Professor Clark has already done pioneer work on the northeastern coast of Australia. In 1913 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he conducted investigations at Torres Strait and discovered some new significant facts concerning the migration of marine animals to the island continent. Last Spring he was appointed a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution and granted an appropriation for the coming trip...
...James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member of the Ways & Means Committee...