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...Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932). He voted against: Farm Relief (1928), Bonus 50% Loan (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1931). He votes Dry, drinks Dry. Legislative, hobbies: Pensions for widows & orphans of War veterans; extension of the Ohio River barge system 80 mi. beyond Pittsburgh. He once proposed that veterans be treated by private doctors. He put through a bill increasing the capacity of the Pittsburgh veterans' hospital by 300 beds. Because .of his Republican regularity, he does not openly agitate his liberalized pension scheme to which the Hoover Administration is opposed...
Last week's running of the Boston Marathon-26 mi. over New England hills from Tebeau's Farm at Hopkinton, Mass., to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic Association-was the 36th. It was the 14th for 44-year-old Clarence De Mar, a school-teacher of Keene...
...Bruyn took a shower, dined, bowled for an hour, danced till midnight, then rode home to Manhattan on a day coach to be on time for his job of stoking a furnace in the Hotel Wellington. He explained how he trained: by running from home to work (15 mi.) several times a week; by running around the boiler room of the Hotel Wellington; by running up & down its 26 flights of backstairs...
Plans were announced to undertake what Sir Ernest Shackleton once described as "the last great adventure in the history of South Polar exploration," the exploration of the 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September...
...young evergreens recently planted. Captain Black is a man of action. He went into the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898, led a company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park...