Word: morton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago Mrs. Morton started for Mexico to induce that country to part with one of its insular possessions in the Pacific. On the way she learned that an islet lying in San Pedro Channel off Southern California apparently belonged to nobody...
...island was long the wish of Mrs. Helen K. Morton of San Francisco. In this she was like many another person who yearns for the sovereign feeling of ruling a bit of water-locked land...
...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
...finals of the wherry races H. C. Dickinson '32 and S. R. Howe '31 took first and second places respectively on the upstream half-mile course. E. A. Renner '30 and Morton Cole '29 captured the novice single event over the same distance, while Dickinson and P. C. Reardon '32 took the medals in the compromise race...
...confused with Illinois' other Congressman Hull - Morton Denison Hull of Chicago, Harvard graduate, lawyer, president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; nor with Congress man Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn...