Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-shouldered man was William Morgan Butler, outgoing chairman of the National Republican Committee. After leaving the dais at Kansas City, he had fulfilled his duty by calling on the holder of "the most important position in the world."-In the wet woods, on an island, in a cabin, beside a fire, they had discussed politics scarcely at all, Mr. Butler said. They had talked about fishing. They had gone fishing. Mr. Butler had caught some fish. He would not tell whether President Coolidge had caught any. He was going to Boston. The rain continued...
...Wisconsin conservation commission had appointed John La Roque, a half-breed (Chippewa-French) several years older than Calvin Coolidge, to be the official Coolidge fishing guide. Newsgatherers, barred from the damp fastnesses of the Cedar Island estate by iron gates and soldiers, got hold of Guide La Roque and questioned him. Thus spoke...
...York Central Railroad owned two corporations serving several of those communities-the Mohawk Valley Co. (light, power, gas) and the New York State Railways. Operating in contingent districts is the Empire Power Co., and closely allied financially with Empire Power is President Ellis Laurimore Phillips of the Long Island Lighting...
Married. Elizabeth Stettinius, daughter of Edward R. Stettinius, partner, until his death in 1925, of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to Juan Terry Trippe of Manhattan, president of the Pan-American Airways, the Atlantic Gulf Carribbean Airways and the Southwestern Air Lines; at Locust Valley, Long Island...
...three moving targets on the Arctic ice packs. From the chaos of radio messages, authentic and faked, which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck, were lost to the world; three were attempting to reach the mainland on foot...