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When Harry Bacharach, no fool at politics, returned from a trip to Europe threeyears ago, 650 of his friends and constituents chartered a ferryboat to meet him. Two thousand more were waiting at Atlantic City, where his political prowess and good works (his family founded a home for crippled children) have endeared...
...time he reached New York harbor with his daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...
...become chairman of New York's State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Like his predecessor. Commissioner Bolan answered the recruiting call of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896, has come up steadily from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called him its "toughest" inspector, "so straight he bends over backward...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...
Near Kolhapur, India, a snake dropped from a tree onto a ferryboat. The passengers rushed to the other side of the boat, which turned over, drowned...