Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...patronesses, as announced by the chairman, will be Mrs. Charles Clifford, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. Robert Hallowell, Mrs. James Jackson, Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. John Parkinson, and Mrs. Hugh Scott...
...Head Patroness will be Mrs. James Lawrence. Her assistants as announced last night by A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of the Committee, includes the following: Mrs. Robert E. Bacon, Mrs. Albert S. Bigelow, Mrs. Charles P. Clifford, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. Philip S. Dalton, Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Mrs. Arthur L. Devens, Mrs. William Elkins, Mrs. Arthur E. French, Mrs. J. Pennington Gardiner, Mrs. Henry S. Grew, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. James Jackson, Mrs. Tarrant P. King, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. John Parkinson, Mrs. Charles A. Porter, Mrs. Charles A. Pratt, Mrs. Everett B. Sweezy...
...just before the Leviathan was ready, Harold A. Cunningham was senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
...shortly after 5 o'clock that day I left the building with my appointment to take command of the Leviathan in my pocket. Commodore Cunningham, "Handsome Harry" to his colleagues and a charming memory to ladies and gentlemen who have sat at his table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...