Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile in Manhattan what again seemed to Germans "occult forces" caused a number of Communists to sneak aboard the S. S. Bremen as that German liner was about to sail with such distinguished passengers as President Roosevelt's toddling grandson William Donner Roosevelt. Six daring Reds proceeded to tear down and throw into the Hudson River the Bremen...
...Nazi flag with its great swastika. The Reds, as Germans fully expected they would be, were at once attacked by New York policemen. During this Wild West conflict, Captain Leopold Ziegenbein stood aloof and calm on the Bremen's bridge in a uniform of cool white duck. Said he as New York ambulances clanged away with dozens of injured and his ship prepared to sail for Germany: "We don't know what the future has in store for us. We don't know what is going to happen next...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...transatlantic course, then 30.31 knots for the run home. Best previous average was Rex's 28.92 knots on the longer South Atlantic route. Last week Normandie's time from Ambrose Lightship to Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg, a 200-mile longer course) for the eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship...
Throughout Germany last week Nazi newsorgans, striving to belittle Norman-die's records, served up again a rumor millions of Germans have been taught to believe, namely, that their Bremen and Europa possess "speed in reserve" sufficient to win back the Atlantic's blue ribbon. Almost treasonable therefore in Nazi eyes was an unexpected remark in Manhattan by blunt Commodore Leopold Ziegenbein of the Bremen. "I am sure," said he last week, "that neither my ship nor the Europa will attempt to better the records set by the Normandie...