Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomat in Addis-Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. Informed observers interpreted the assignment not as a reward to George Hanson but as assurance that the State Department was deeply concerned with the promise of trouble between Italy and Abyssinia (see p. 18), wanted one of its best hands on deck...
...said Captain Wood told him it had. Chief Engineer Martin said this was news to him. Quartermaster Mardy Polander said that not only had the wheel been "tough to handle," but that 20 minutes before the collision "it was impossible to keep the Mohawk on her course." Against this Deck Engineer Snyder reported he had tested the steering mechanism ten minutes before the crash, and again after it, that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right in every way." Second Assistant Engineer Parry testified that the Mohawk's steering motor had frozen during cold...
...bonus & burgee was the Mauretania's Captain Reginald V. Peel, who last week was transferred to the Olympic to succeed Captain John W. Binks, retired (TIME, Dec. 31). Cunard Line had agreed before the merger to retire its captains at 60, to ease congestion in the promotion of deck officers. But White Star got tired of paying off retired Cunard skippers...
Purchasers of this gaudy red volume will have within one set of covers such sensational camera trophies as: Ruth Snyder squirming in the electric chair; the slanting deck of the sinking S. S. Vestris; Leo Frank swinging from a Georgia tree; the "Rolphing" at San Jose; a Nebraska Negro crisply incinerated; Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre; William Warnecke's famed shot of Mayor Gaynor wounded; public executions in the Chinese manner (strangulation), the French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner...
...which Eddie is the rightful heir. The intrigue comes through the efforts of a couple of grafters (Ethel Merman and Warren Hymer), a scheming Virginia colonel (Burton Churchill) and an Egyptian potentate (Jesse Block) to do our hero out of the legacy. Eddie is pushed off the deck of a transatlantic liner, dangled over a steaming cauldron of oil and generally pushed around, but in the end he flies accidentally from Egypt to New York with the treasure clutched in his arms and all the city's moppets are treated to an ice cream orgy that leaves them...