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Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's detective-secretary, flew to Panama, caught two 10-ft. sailfish in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Close behind Mrs. Stone came Dr. Vernon Kellogg with a 65-lb. sailfish. After much razzing by his companions, because he complained sharks decapitated his big catches before he could land them, Justice Stone finally caught a 42-pounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE-PRESIDENCY: Holiday's End | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...President's fishing had not been extraordinarily successful. His total catch: one sailfish (45 Ibs.). one mackerel, four bonitos, three barracuda. Mrs. Hoover had caught a 38-lb. sailfish, some red snappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE-PRESIDENCY: Holiday's End | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Honors for the expedition went to the Hoover guests. No. 1 angler was Agnes Harvey Stone, plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE-PRESIDENCY: Holiday's End | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...club's prize mounted sailfish caught by Author Zane Grey in 1918, weighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE-PRESIDENCY: Holiday's End | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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