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...Continuance of the present modes of persecution must seriously affect the good-will with which the people of Britain desire to regard the German nation," warned the Archbishop of Canterbury, before popping out of the Church Assembly to christen the six-week-old son of the Duke of Kent...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...
...Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers for the third dirigible built...
...adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...
...said that if unfavorable winds hold back the tide on the appointed day there may not be enough water in the Clyde to launch their monster. Launching or no launching. Queen Mary, resolute as King Canute, planned last week to crack her bottle on Sept. 26, will cry "I christen thee Victoria...