Word: chases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian marsh. No. 1401 had to chug back...
...river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster...
...utility field was not the only one to feel the urge to merge last week (see p. 52). In New York two large institutions, the Chase National Bank, the National Park Bank, at meetings of their respective boards, agreed to consolidate. Total resources of $1,200,000,000 will make the new company the third largest banking institution in the country, exceeded only by the Guaranty Trust Co., National City Bank. In point of total capital funds, it will be the largest with...
...University authorities will initiate within the next few days preparations for opening the Freshman dormitories to receive the major part of the 2700 students attending the 1929 Harvard Summer School, it was announced yesterday afternoon by R. P. Chase '00, Director of the Summer School. The summer population this year is rather larger than has been the average for the past few years...
...rest of the Alumni team is composed of men who made their mark deep in Harvard athletics. J. P. Chase '28, who will play shortstop, was a hockey and baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three...