Word: ross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going back to Brule, President Coolidge inspected a 41-Ib. muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross how he had caught it. Fisherman Ross gladly explained and asked the President to come catch its grandfather. "Thank you," said the President. During the Democratic Convention, the Republican President did not go near his radio. Instead...
More than 24 hours after tall Franklin Delano Roosevelt had introduced New York's "happy warrior"; after Maryland's Ritchie, Kentucky's Barkley and Wyoming's Ross and several others had seconded him, with phrases ranging from "this sea of faces" to "a living, pulsating, understanding heart"?the balloting began. Soon the name of Alfred Emanuel Smith belonged to the almanacs...
...them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
Interest is given to the current exhibition at the Fogg Museum of Chinese and Japanese portraits owned by Dr. D. W. Ross '75 by the recent addition of four new paintings to the Ross collection of Oriental work in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Fogg, the exhibition of Maya Art, loaned by the Peabody Museum, Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot's exhibition of French silver winetasters' cups, and The Denman W. Ross '75 collection of Chinese and Japanese portraits are still on view...