Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capt. Yves Thomas of the S.S. Paris had company in his cabin on the last crossing. It was the famed Davidoff cello, made by Stradivari in 1712 for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, later owned by Karl Davidoff, cellist at the Imperial Russian Court. Valued at some $85,000 it came to the U. S. to enter the Wurlitzer collection. Capt. Thomas, himself a violinist, agreed it was .too valuable for the regular cargo, offered himself as bodyguard...
When an incalculably rich and potent publisher stoops to the lowly plane of author, and writes a piece for his paper, the subject must be dear to his heart. Last week it was no less a publisher than Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson who appeared as contributor to his nickel weekly, Liberty-His subject was aviation and to adumbrate his emotion he quoted from Kipling (with emendations) as follows...
Reporter Duffy was one of those who met Capt. Frederick Sorenson, passenger on the Vestris, when he was brought in with other survivors on the American Shipper. He quoted Capt. Sorenson as saying that Capt. Carey of the lost ship was "criminally negligent," that certain of the crew were "murderers...
Some few days later Capt. Sorenson, appearing in the Department of Commerce investigation, said under oath that Reporter Duffy's article was false, that Reporter Duffy himself was "a dirty, rat-faced liar...
...appears that between the time of his interview with Reporter Duffy and his appearance on the witness stand, Capt. Sorenson had called at the office of the Lamport & Holt Line, asked indemnification for his losses...