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...Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution not to offend U. S. sensibilities. Her crew was forbidden to get drunk ashore, and they kicked down the gangplank a loud-mouthed U. S. Red who tried to turn their polite arrival into a noisy Red rally...
...Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "It's a great thing to have you aboard again, Mr. President...
...benefit of photographers the ceremony was repeated. Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward the open sea. Behind her like a vigilant watchdog for the fortnight's cruise glided the U. S. destroyer Ellis...
Ramrod-straight, Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, marched up the gangplank of the steamer Coamo in Manhattan last week, quietly retired to his cabin to settle himself for the four-day voyage to Puerto Rico. There he was to take over the job of Governor which had proved too politically hot for Robert Hayes Gore (TIME, Jan. 22). The one-time Judge Advocate General of the Army smilingly told newshawks that he had nothing to say about his new post. But a fellow-passenger, who had also just landed a big Puerto Rican job, said plenty...
Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams last week loped happily down the gangplank of the United States liner Manhattan, back from Bermuda. His "fog camera," tested during the cruise under his supervision, was to remain on the Manhattan's upper bridge as regular equipment, was slated for installation on the Manhattan's sister ship Washington...