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...character embracing the exploits of two men. One of these, John Dolbeer, long dead, was a New Hampshire Yankee. The other, Capt. A. M. Simpson, died not long ago, well into the go's. He was a Maine Yankee. Both of them were astonishingly shrewd lumbermill operators and vessel owners, and neither of them ever took a bad dime...
...arms and stout hearts and be worthy of our patrimony? We have an illustrious example of such a spirit ? the spirit of one who, through the last long grueling four years, has stood at the helm as the captain of our ship of state and has steered the vessel safely through fog and hurricane, and passed the terrors of the lee shore. . . . This homespun American, HERBERT HOOVER...
...Last week, despite the fact that Brazil is still tasting the dregs of a coffee crisis, candid Provisional President Getulio Vargas authorized the purchase of two cruisers, eight gunboats, seven submarines, six submarine tenders. The present Brazilian navy consists chiefly of two dread-naughts, three cruisers, one coast defense vessel, ten destroyers, four submarines, one salvage ship. "The armament firms in every country are enjoying a little boom." observed London's New Statesman & Nation. "The Board of Trade has published some interesting figures about our arms exports to China and Japan. . . . The amount sent by us to Japan...
Congressman De Priest's argument for his pension bill: The first 20 Negro slaves were brought to America by a Dutch trading vessel in 1619. By 1863 there were in the U. S. 3,500,000 slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal...
...Every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know...