Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Highways Minister A. Stirling MacMillan of Nova Scotia quickly reeled in the third annual International Tuna Matches-between teams of British, French, Belgian, Cuban and U. S. fishermen-slated to take place off Wedgeport, N. S. last week...
...stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled him. His vacation plan: to cruise off Nova Scotia, try for giant tuna...
...Usual tackle for marlin and tuna in Bahaman waters: 39-thread line, 14/0 real and 30-oz. tip. Some anglers even use 72-thread line, 16/0 reel...
...Week before, during the Cat Cay tuna tournament, Tommy Shevlin landed three tuna - a 382-pounder, a 406-pounder, a 485-pounder -within 62 minutes. Fellow fishermen thought it a world's record...
Last week Mr. Roosevelt's second Attorney General, gentle, pious Frank Murphy, having just returned from visits to Alcatraz and the contrasting U. S. prison farm at La Tuna, Tex., announced that he is against Alcatraz. "It is necessary to have a place like Alcatraz to break up a crowd that conspires to escape or kill or murder," he said. But he believed results equally good could be obtained in an escape-proof, walled farm, without quite such grim technique. "It is a great injustice to San Francisco," he said, "to have that place of horror on the doorstep...