Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appointed. Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commander of the S. S. Beren-garia, to succeed the late Sir James T. W. Charles as commodore of the Cunard Steamship Fleet...
...Ashley Sparks, resident director of the Cunard Line, owns a home at Syosset, Long Island, where he keeps nine servants, four dogs, many a jewel. On May 13, $14,000 worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner...
Numerous aristocratic but decadent Scotch shooting lodges have been leased this year by the Cunard Line for release to rich U. S. sportsmen...
Since the hunting lodge leases originally provided for no such "improvement," the whole expense has had to be borne by the English Cunard Line, to the delight of Scots, many of whom will tub in their own lodges for the first time when U. S. sportsmen have left...
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...