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According to reliable reports, President-elect James B. Conant '14 will arrive in America from France before the end of next week. It is probable that he will sail on the Europa. Since he was in France on June 21, when he was officially notified by the Overseers he has not made public any plans...
...long worked to popularize the works of U. S. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered 3,500 acres of 42 to 46 ft. water. It was already fit to dock most transatlantic liners. The North German Lloyd's Europa & Bremen, the White Star Line's Majestic, the Cunard Line's Aquitania & Berengaria will continue to use tenders until the flanking moles are finished early next year...
...Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose to say that No. 534 "had survived all sorts of criticism. The theory and design of the ship are correct. The ship...
When Captain Antonio Lena took the Italian Line's S. S. Conte di Savoia out of Genoa harbor last week, he wanted two things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa...
...cities held protest meetings, the most important of which, in New York, was attended by almost everyone from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to Bishop Manning and Alfred E. Smith. Rabbis throughout the country announced a day of fasting and prayer. Wholesalers cancelled-thousands of dollars worth of orders. The Europa announced that at least 25 steamship cancellations were due to Nazi terrorism. Other German lines admitted as many but claimed that the banking moratorium-had had more than a little to do with it. French & British importers and steamship agents rubbed their hands...