Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whale Watcher Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 9, on p. 60, you say there is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. By an odd coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been...
Surrounded by Admirals, Secretaries, experts both naval and diplomatic, for hours last week the President considered tonnages, gun sizes, British statements of naval requirements, U. S. counter-requirements. Then, while the White House, the State Department, the Navy Department still boiled with naval and financial statistics, long code messages were sent to Ambassador Dawes in London and presently it was definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed...
Through the thinning blue ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered last week in Portland, Me., for its 63rd encampment, throbbed a momentous, oft-recurring question. President Hoover, who loves the South, and 31 State Governors, had recommended a grand joint reunion of the G. A. R. and the United Veterans of the Confederacy. Richard A. Sneed, Commander-in-Chief of the U. V. C., in the first official communication ever sent by his organization to the G. A. R., had warmly acquiesced. Octogenarian John Reese of Broken Bow, Neb., Commander-in-Chief...
...alumnus of Muskingum College, is a person of no small importance. As Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to help the Anti-Saloon League of that State elect a superintendent. Addressing his local brethren he referred to William J. Calhoun, who only a few days before had been made Federal Prohibition Administrator for New Jersey, as follows...
...conditions don't improve in New Jersey under the new Federal administration of William J. Calhoun then they will improve under a new administrator. Washington means business in this State...