Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he signed the Kellogg Pact, a crashing French salute boomed for Mr. Stimson's predecessor as Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg; but last week the Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...North German Lloyd declined to state that Europa was trying to beat Bremen's speed record across the Atlantic, but actually she crossed in 18 minutes less than the Bremen's best time, thereby setting a world record of 4 days, 17 hr., 6 min. from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Meantime her owners announced that they were in the process of entering into a 50-year "commercial alliance" with the Hamburg-American line. Control of each company will remain with its present officers. The tonnages "allied" are so great that they will operate side by side...