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...tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three years after Appomattox he sailed out with the fleet from St. John's on his first seal hunt...
Charley Whiteside, admiral of Harvard's eight-oared fleet, bundled himself a little more warmly in his heavy ba-ba coat, and turned to scan with a practised eye the husky and long-legged young gentlemen in the Varsity shell who were pumping down the Charles at a 24-beat-to-the-minute gait, trailing a long white streamer as they went...
Washington, March 19--An agreement on the Vinson-Trammell Bill authorizing construction of the American fleet to treaty strength within five years was reached tonight by House and Senate conferees...
...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...