Word: despatchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once Ogden Goelet's yacht, then a despatch boat for the U. S. Navy, then the presidential yacht Mayflower, a trim white ship lay tied up in Philadelphia last week being changed once more into a naval craft to serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern. It raged forward, reached and sent rocketing some explosives, injured two fire-fighting seamen, got completely out of control. The firefighters had to withdraw and watch the withered Mayflower burn and sink until her bow rested on the bottom of the Delaware River...
What made the President jump was a despatch from British Nassau to the Cuban State Department, later "confirmed by the War and Navy Departments" to the effect that two schooners loaded with munitions were racing for the Cuban shores. Promptly the entire Cuban Navy (19 vessels) put to sea, and every Spanish-language newspaper in Havana was suppressed. Finally by executive decree, Dictator Machado conferred "upon all members of the Cuban Army and Navy, including officers, soldiers and sailors regardless of rank and whether on active duty or not, full powers to pursue police investigations and to make arrests...
...home to watch her property, pending payment of a bill. The officer appointed is none other than Mr. Banks, who promptly falls in love with Miss Jeans. In making himself generally agreeable around the house he consents to become the footman and in this capacity he is able to despatch all Miss Jeans' former admirers, including his brother. In the end the two adventurers leave England together on money that Mr. Banks has been able to procure from his family, he marries the lady although he realizes that she has been "in seduced circumstances...
...over the airport at Victoria, B. C. one day last week two swift Army pursuit planes roared into the air, flew eastward on an impressive mission. The leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order to be laid before...
...hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust pipe...