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White Flag! Up the staff of the "Pink House" as General Uriburu approached rose jerkily a white flag. But inside tern" porary President Martinez had not quite surrendered. As the sword-rattler clanked into the President's office with his staff the civilian faced him calmly...
...July 1928, one Oliver H. Austin Jr. caught a common tern in Northern Labrador, put an aluminum band around its leg. In September 1929, the same tern, still banded, was seen and examined off the southern tip of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 mi. from Labrador. This was accepted by the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association meeting in Boston fortnight ago, as the longest migration ever proved to have been made by a bird. The previous record was held by an arctic tern which had flown from Turneuik Bay in southern Labrador to Margate, Natal, South Africa, some...
...learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear...
...just two hours for the truth to leak out. Some one simply had to tell that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...
...most knowing politicians in the business. He can explain his opposition to the Hoover nomination by referring his fellow Senators to the presidential spark burning in all their humble breasts. Senator Watson was mentioned as a possible successor to Leader Curtis and a very likely candidate for President Pro Tern...