Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared, is no longer needed. Reason: the U. S. is thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world in five years. Newsgatherers told him his line will equip its new ships with airplanes. He wagged his square white beard with approval...
...Elena, a newer and smaller ship, was a slight favorite to win the race to Spain. She was skippered by a professional, John Barr, nephew of the great Capt. Charles...
Grizzliest of the skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...
Died. Harold Leslie Hamm, 21, footballer (fullback) and sophomore last year at Dartmouth; struck by lightning while on Lake Winnepesaukee. Died. Capt. Emilio Carranza, 22, Mexican aviator; near Chatsworth...
...Died. Capt. Sir James T. W. Charles, 62, famed commodore of the Cunard fleet; in Southampton, England, just after he had taken the Aquitania across the Atlantic; of an internal hemorrhage. He had intended to retire after this voyage of the Aquitania and 48 years...