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...Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island for the U. S. Explorer Stefansson commented on the film via Movietone...
Unity. To make plain that the party stood united and that he would be no sulk-in-tent champion, Missouri's white-crested Senator James A. Reed followed Mr. Davis with a cry for "every Democrat in the United States" to support Nominee Smith "until the last ballot is counted on election night." True, this Reed speech preceded the convention's choice of a vice president. But after Nominee Robinson was chosen, Senator Reed's congratulations contained an honest ring...
...prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent...
...grand idea. It could hardly fail. The four of us left our tent and went to the starting line, confident that Abrahams would be beaten. ... I drew the inside lane. The moment I looked at the number I knew that the scheme was off. And my teammates seemed to sense it too. For the training that we had had in American athletics prevented us from seizing that kind of an opportunity...
Preliminary enrollment indicates that the number going to the Lake this year will be larger than usual. The men will live in tents, in groups of four men to a tent...