Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the leading questions brought to his attention were the depletion of the Panhandle salmon fisheries, the lack of good roads, the need of markets for agricultural products. The first question might be solved by the creation of a national fish preserve, but this would tend to create a monopoly among the canners already installed. On the question of roads, Secretary Wallace suggested that the Alaskans avail themselves of some $4,000,000 which they might have under the Federal Aid Road Act, but this would involve a conflict with the War Department, which likes to keep control of Alaskan...
Chief Justice Taft went to his home town, Cincinnati, and made a speech on the Supreme Court. His text was Salmon P. Chase, a former resident of Cincinnati and Chief Justice. The occasion was the unveiling of the Chase monument...
...Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, became Senator, Governor, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Justice. He was the active mind of Lincoln's Cabinet. Born in Cornish, N. H., he graduated from Dartmouth, and early entered the anti-slavery fight. Grave and massive, his New England conscience was as strong as his sense of humor was weak. He was the financial genius of the Civil...
...first three Henry P. Davison scholarships were awarded to three Oxford men: C. V. Salmon, Harrow and Balliol; J. Bird, Clongowes and Balliol; R. W. Cecil, Eton and Christ Church. Salmon goes to Princeton; Bird, prominent athlete, to Harvard; Cecil, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., G.B.E., to Yale...
...change in Department of Fisheries is typical. A ruthless reorganization has resulted in the retirement of former Chief Smith, who grew up in Government service and is an international authority in ichthyology. Today, nobody in the bureau gives a thought to any uncommercial fish. All the talk is Alaskan salmon and Maine sardines...