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Try as he may, no good U. S. President can get far away from his White House duties. After six days of mediocre fishing in the Gulf Stream off Long Key, Fla., President Hoover cut short his winter vacation and journeyed back to Washington. No Sunday fisherman, he did not...
The President's fishing had not been extraordinarily successful. His total catch: one sailfish (45 Ibs.). one mackerel, four bonitos, three barracuda. Mrs. Hoover had caught a 38-lb. sailfish, some red snappers.
Honors for the expedition went to the Hoover guests. No. 1 angler was Agnes Harvey Stone, plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out...
Most prosperous of all Iceland institutions is the Icelandic Association for the Promotion of the Fishing Trade?one of the few instances of a successful national monopoly. Through this association all Icelandic fishermen present a united front to European buyers of cod and herring. Experience has shown that by this...
When the report was digested, "Roxy" began his message. Gaily colorful is "Roxy" who, in 1907, after seven years in the Marine Corps, borrowed chairs from an undertaker and started a motion picture house in Forest City, Pa. Immensely genial, he proclaims that his chief ambition is "to live to...