Word: fisherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatist. "Given to duty and very clever in carrying it out," was the way Fisherman-Essayist Henry van Dyke described Queen Wilhelmina in the days when he was U. S. Minister to her court...
...Theresa, N. Y., Inventor Oscar Eggleston demonstrated a device by which a fish nibbles at a baited hook, sets a red flag waving, a .22 cartridge discharging, an electric bell ringing, a light flashing, a short-wave radio sending signals, brings the fisherman...
Just above Italy's vulnerable northern plain, at his Cisalpine summer home in Santianna di Valdieri, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips found small King Vittorio Emmanuele III when he went to deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar...
...Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since he and his cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt went there in 1908 had he fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest known, excels all I have seen in my long experience. It is, in fact, the Adonis...
...Jackspot," a shoal 22 miles off Ocean City, Md., fishermen last week repeatedly broke the record for numbers of white marlin boated in one day out of one port. From 41 the record leaped to 73, to 123. Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt had his sea gear loaded aboard the Potomac, sped to "The Jackspot" for the weekend. Trolling from the Potomac's stern, while men all around him caught marlin, Mr. Roosevelt got skunked...