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...seat of President Frederick Bertrand Robinson. Dr. Robinson never tires of asserting that a talented person can succeed equally in any field of endeavor. In support of this theory he boasts that he takes up something new every year - painting, etching, cello playing or swab bing decks on a freighter. In 1933, when pacifists blocked his way to an R. O. T. C. review in the college stadium, he won nationwide notice by belaboring them with his umbrella, later confiding "I think I got twelve" (TIME, June 5, 1933). In 1934 he stormed "Guttersnipes!" at students who hissed a party...
That the fine record of U. S. seamen has been more dependent on the U. S. flag waving over them than on their own courage and ability startlingly appeared last week when U. S. seamen of the U. S. freighter Oregon slipped off her in San Pedro, Calif. Her owners said the aviation gasoline she carried was destined for Singapore, but she was bound via the Suez Canal and her gallant crew felt they should first consult Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While their walking delegate was doing so, the Oregon's owners offered the crew a 50% bonus...
Into the wide blue harbor of Manila last week slid the U. S. destroyer Peary. Aboard her were 52 survivors of the wrecked British freighter Silverhazel which, bound out of San Francisco for Singapore and Bombay, had gone down with a loss of four lives in San Bernardino Strait, 350 mi. southwest of the Philippine capital...
...same line. Last week, this 16,484-ton vessel was churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued an SOS, ordered his 520 passengers & some crew members into the lifeboats, whence they were soon picked up by the Orion and the Viceroy of India, carried on toward England...
Amid dense fog 50 miles off Victoria, B. C., the liner Niagara carrying wavy-haired Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons & wife home from King George's Silver Jubilee was in head-on collision last week with another British ship, the freighter King Egbert...