Word: marylanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves of the Treaty and would like to defeat it as a crowning event of his irreconcilable career. Other opponents are California's Johnson, New Hampshire's Moses, Minnesota's Shipstead. Maryland's Bruce, bumbling against the Treaty last week, called it "utter inanity...
...position of the zenith with respect to the stars with the order of accuracy of about a hundredth of a second of arc, which corresponds to a foot on the earth's surface. Several thousands of such observations for latitude were made some time ago by Ross at Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of the stations of the International Latitude Survey. It was the recent analysis of this series of observations that brought to light the variation of nearly a tenth of a second of arc in latitude, depending upon the altitude of the moon. The maximum value occurs when the moon...
Plans were made to interpolate in the Hoover itinerary after Lima a call on landlocked Bolivia. The Maryland was to halt off Antofagasta (Chile) and receive Bolivan officials on board. Chile, shocked and shaken by an earthquake (see p. 19) awaited with double eagerness the arrival of the famed U.S. disaster-doctor...
...West Virginia's illiteracy percentage is 6.4. That is better, however, than the percentage of any southern state, except Maryland...
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker Ritchie, onetime wife of Gov. Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland; to Dr. Francis I. Proctor; Boston eye specialist; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. So circumspectly was Mrs. Ritchie's divorce obtained in 1916 that many Maryland voters are unaware that Gov. Ritchie has ever been married...