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...often forgot that he was as much at home in navigation as in music. For years the U. S. Navy used his Elements of Navigation, written in 1895. He wrote three children's books: Sea Yarns for Boys, Afloat with the Flag, and The Last Cruise of the Mohawk. When the Spanish-American War broke out, Henderson commanded the first detachment of naval militia to enter Federal service since the Civil...
...years John L. Casey has led parties of New York school children through the State Museum in Albany's State Education Building, faithfully explained the prehistoric skeletons and the lifelike reproductions of Cayuga and Mohawk tribesmen, in which interest is perennially strongest. Last week Guide Casey declared that he was thoroughly tired of modern moppets who lead him a romping chase through the exhibits, make sport of his educational efforts. Said he: "Kids are worse than they ever were. They used to play tag around the mastodons and the paleozoic fossils. Now they're not content unless they...
...world's leading manufacturers of office equipment and typewriters," refused to bargain with his unionized employes, they went on strike last May in six of his plants. Soon rugged Mr. Rand was gleefully having described in a bulletin of the National Association of Manufacturers his "Mohawk Valley formula" for breaking strikes. Prime ingredient of the formula was demoralization of strikers and winning of public sympathy by back-to-work movements "operated by a puppet association of so-called 'loyal employes' secretly organized by the employer." Other features included branding of strike leaders as "agitators," constant propaganda...
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown...
...19th Century matured, seagoing boats outgrew the Hudson. Railroads killed the canal. But since Albany sits at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent...