Word: monday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young pronghorns are around two months old and weigh about 25 Ib., Rancher Belden sets about delivering them to zoos, which are always eager for them. Since most means of transport are too arduous for the delicate fawns, he uses the Ryan monoplane of his friend Bill Monday, onetime cowpuncher...
Last week, with 83 little pronghorns carefully wrapped in burlap bags and resting in two rows in the plane, Rancher Belden and Pilot Monday took off from Pitchfork, began dropping antelope all across the nation. The Chicago and Philadelphia Zoos each got a pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick...
John Hamilton's reports by telephone got better and better. Like an oil drill going down, the column of Landon delegates continued steadily up. To the 388 lined up by Monday were added most of New York's 90. Then 50 of Pennsylvania's 75. That clinched it-unless the rig should go haywire before the actual balloting. Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. "Well, Harry," he said, "I'll invite you to dinner...
Captain James A. E. Wood '37, left outside, heads a list of 15 who will report for initial practice Monday, September...
Orville Knapp and his original Waldorf Astoria orchestra will play at the Senior Spread in Lowell House Monday evening, it was announced yesterday...