Word: despatching
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...encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
...Alexander Crosby Brown of Philadelphia, Edward Howard Dodd Jr. of Manhattan, Thomas Marshall of Philadelphia. Last week the Chance was nearing New Haven again. At Australia all but Alexander Brown and Edward Dodd forsook the romantic wayfaring and, except for Organizer Brooke, returned to the U. S. with despatch and comfort. Mr. Brooke found a languorous island with a comfortable house, numerous servants, and a seemingly profitable copra plantation, and settled down. Lorn Messrs. Brown and Dodd found new Yale shipmates and a Harvard graduate. Last week they slowly approached New Haven aboard the Chance...
...certain stories that he loves to tell: how as a boy of 18, living in the U. S. anc supporting his mother, he managed to save $320 in 18 months . . . how he walked into the White House one day and spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin...
...eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...