Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kennedy had worked fast. Hanging to the telephone, he had ordered consulates in Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool-where most Americans embarked-to get the names of passengers. When he arrived that morning at the seven-story red-brick former apartment house that is now the U. S. Embassy, No. 1 Grosvenor Square, he was able to cable the State Department an almost complete list of Americans aboard. Two days later, in tension and in shirt sleeves, Joe Kennedy spent his 51st birthday working at his desk...
Newsboy, candy-butcher, Harvard athlete-in three summers as a bus-driver he made $5,000-Kennedy's life has gone in the sections and jerks of a fast freight train. He was a bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special...
Though not so cosmopolitan as the 29-year-old Stars (whose constellations are scattered all over the world), nor so popular as the eight-year-old Snipes (3,700 registered boats, mostly in the U. S.), the little Comets-fast, sensitive and priced at $300-have multiplied like rabbits in the past five years. Today the Comet Class has 1,500 registered boats, shows promise of zooming to the top of the small-boat heap before its tenth birthday...
Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...
...Atlantic Line (affiliate of Cunard-White Star) they embarked at Glasgow, Belfast and Liverpool for Montreal. At 8:59 p. m. Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked up 800 more...