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Their quarters were better than those of most alleged murderers. The Alton (once the old cruiser Chicago) was connected with the shore by a 200 ft. boardwalk, guarded by marines. On her deck had been built a penthouse, bristling with ventilators to cool the neat single cabins within. Each prisoner occupied a room comparable to that on a small liner. The food came from the officers' mess. No third-degree examinations occurred because civilian prosecutors were barred from the Alton. Flowers and messages poured in upon Mrs. Fortescue from the island and the mainland. Her daughter Thalia, staying with friends...
...remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something to do or say in the last act the whole affair might have turned out differently. Dwight Deere Wiman, whose cruiser Moanin' Low commemorates his (and William A. Brady Jr.'s) highly successful production of the first Little Show, is the producer...
...London U.S. delegates surrendered to Britain in the matter o cruiser gun sizes...
...growling at President Hoover before the London Naval Conference of 1930. He said the President was "starving" the Navy. He accused him of "congenital pacifism." He loudly deplored the London agreement, which required the U. S. to put part of its auxiliary naval strength into small 6-in.-gun cruisers, as a "surrender to the British." When the London Treaty was ratified, he set up a clamor, as the Navy League's president, for speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When...
...Charles Townsend Ludington, socialite of Philadelphia, $8,000 might be the price of a small cabin cruiser such as he sails on Biscayne Bay. For his young brother Nicholas ("Nikko") Saltus Ludington it might buy a few new mounts for his large stable of hunters. For either brother, it would be hardly more than pin money. But the $8,073.61 profit which showed on a balance sheet upon Brother Townsend's desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger...