Word: gangplank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly it was a hopeful, happy Franklin Roosevelt who descended his gangplank from the cruiser Indianapolis to take the limelight on the stage that his advance...
...miles of cheering crowds to the Navy dock. There lay the fast cruiser Indianapolis, her rails lined with blue jackets at attention. Accompanied only by his son James, his son's friend Edward" Gallagher, his Military and Naval aides and White House physician, the President climbed the gangplank and was piped aboard. He ascended to the bridge, waved good-by and promised, "I'm going to have a good time...
...Sitka, Alaska, angry citizens tried to seize the cargo of food on S. S. Northland, were repulsed at the gangplank. Elsewhere in Alaska, the food shortage became so grave that Governor John W. Troy telegraphed Washington for help. By contrast, in Boston many striking seamen, unsupported by funds from their union, were literally starved into submission, returned to work...
Died. Dr. William McDonald, 63, neurologist who treated Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1925-26) for infantile paralysis at his farm in North Marion, Mass.; after long illness; in Marion. Under his direction Mr. Roosevelt learned to walk on a specially constructed gangplank by supporting himself on its handrails...
Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...