Word: belgenland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purchase marked the end of I. M. M.'s foreign-flag shipping. Year ago I. M. M. severed its connection with White Star Line, later sold its Red Star liners Minnetonka and Minnewaska for junk (TIME, Nov. 26). Last month I. M. M. transferred the Red Star liner Belgenland from British to U. S. registry, renamed her Columbia, put her in Panama Pacific Line's New York-Havana cruise service as the biggest (27,000 tons) U. S. ship in active service...
...turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean voyages of White Star's Homeric and one of the same company's Britannic...
...When the Belgenland reached Fire Island, N.Y., on her return from a six-day cruise to Halifax, it was 1 a.m. At a sweepstakes party were Hisashi Fujimura, rich Japanese importer (Asahi Corp.), and his mistress-svelte, blonde, beauteous Mrs. Mary Dale von Reissner, onetime showgirl. She was travelling with him in the guise of governess to his seven-year-old daughter Toshika. During the voyage there had been some stateroom resentment over their affair. At 1 a.m., Importer Fujimura left the party. Except for the testimony of a staff officer and a stewardess who thought that they...
Several hundred U. S. tourists from the world-cruising S. S. Belgenland hurrahed St. Gandhi in New Delhi last week, snapped their cameras at him, clamored for his autograph...
Then, and only then, the apostle of "soul force" spoke. Gently but firmly he exhorted his audience to keep the truce he had made with Lord Irwin. Diversion: mouselike Mrs. Gandhi brought as her guests to the speakers' platform some tourists from the S. S. Belgenland including Mrs. Hattie Belle Johnston (see above...