Word: sault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative (1899-1923), famed for his high-tariff record as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee (1919-23). Looming as competitors for the seat in the primaries and election were two former governors of Michigan, Albert E. Sleeper of Bad Axe, and Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie; one judge, Ira W. Jayne of Detroit; and Editor Arthur H. Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald...
Chase Salmon Osborn used to be not Georgia's but Michigan's Governor, in 1911 and 1912. He rose to that office from the comparatively humble positions of postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (1889-93), then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near...
...hell of Great Lakes seamen is the St. Mary's River over whose cascades 75,000 cubic feet of icy cold Lake Superior water somersault every second. At the city of Sault Sainte Marie, this "Soo" River drops 20 feet in three-quarters of a mile. But both the Canadian and the U. S. Governments have built locks at the cascades, that can lift two to four lake steamers to the Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia...
...most of the Massachusetts Agricultural College-made too much of it, wore out his eyes. He got a track laborer's job with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years, at 20. Out west the infant Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie road offered openings. Young Willard steered clear of cards and drink, the avocations of the human riffraff that used to infest young railroads. Then the B. & 0. sent for him. He assisted its general manager for two years, when the president of the Erie sent...
Celebrating the completion of the Dixie Highway from Sault Ste. Marie to Miami, after ten years of labor by the Dixie Highway Association, a "motorcade" traveled southward over the highway last week, waving flags and making speeches...