Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down the gangplank marched General John Joseph Pershing, closely followed by National Commander Howard Paul Savage of the American Legion. Some 19,000 legionaries were debarking at about the same time from 15 liners besides the Leviathan, flagship of "the Second A. E. F." Cherbourg and other French ports blared with bands, songs, shouts, kisses, clanking bottles, municipal oratory...
...aboard. Three minute's before the gangplank was drawn, he marched briskly up it. Not so Vice President Dawes. He could not go. Standing on the bridge of an official cutter, he said: "It make's me homesick to see them go without...
Nineteen German businessmen descended the gangplank of the S. S. Deutschland in Manhattan, at their head Friedrich Ebert Jr., successful journalist, son of the late famed first President of Germany. Serious, purposeful, the delegation set out to tour U. S. industrial centres. Of President Ebert's three sons, Ebert Jr. alone survives. His brothers were killed during...
Many years ago, when War raged and Herbert Hoover fed the Belgians, Manhattan reporters found on the passenger list of an incoming steamer the name Herbert W. Hoover. They quivered. Here was the great relief-worker returning unexpectedly. He would give them an interview. A man came down the gangplank, a square-jawed man of port. They surrounded him; clamored questions. The man, nonplussed for but a moment, smiled...
Chiang* and Chang* have heretofore been the most potent names in current China, but last week was added the great name of Wang Ching-wei. He arrived from France at Shanghai; and as he strode smiling down the gangplank there seemed a chance that he may become the cohesive politician whom China so sorely needs...