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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become relief captain of the three largest Cunarders, Berengaria, Aquitania & Mauretania. The Cunard program calls for heavy duty service with these vessels; they turn around quickly in New York; there has been scarcely any rest period between voyages for their burdened, responsible skippers. Capts. Charles Smith and W. R. D. Irvine broke down on the Berengaria; Captain Sir James Charles recently died on the Aquitania. Hereafter their regular captains will take them for three round trips and then be relieved by Capt. Prothero on the ensuing voyage...
Over 205 miles an hour was the pace sustained, last week, between Boiling Field, Washington, D. C., and Mitchell Field, Long Island, by Lieutenant Ford J. Lauer and Gordon P. Saville...
...West, of Chicago, was appointed by President Coolidge to be Secretary Tramways Company, of the Mexican Toronto, to the board and C. D. Magee, of Power Company; the Mexican Light & ted to the board of of Toronto, was elec...
Close friend of President Graustein is President Frank D. Comerford of New England Power. Last week, New England's Comerford came to the board of directors of International Paper, joining a group of potent New York and Boston financiers. Among them: Frank N. B. Close (vice president, Bankers Trust Co.) ; H. C. Phipps (New York Trust Co.); Ogden M. Reid (president, New York Tribune, Inc.); John R. Macomber (president, Harris, Forbes...
...this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written circa 1002 A. D...