Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...muttering imprecations about broken campaign pledges, sits little G.O.P., eager for the January fray. Indicative of the changing, wavering attitude of the public is yesterday's Herald-Tribune front page "news-story" which analyzes the disconcerting present and the uncertain future of the NRA, thus laying down a gangplank from which to disembark without incurring the charge of sudden desertion of the ship. On top of all this comes, as we have pointed out, the impending convention of the country's Mad Hatters. Bad as things appear to be now, by January there may be loud, insistent cries...
...Montreal, two Cuban bodyguards rushed him down the gangplank into a waiting automobile. Canadian police formed around him, escorted him at breakneck speed to the Mount Royal Hotel. Safe in the suite which General Italo Balbo occupied two months ago, he told newshawks : "We have with us barely sufficient pocket money to meet our traveling expenses. All my property, real and otherwise, is in Cuba and I have no money in any bank outside of Cuba...
Tender captains, chugging out and back to the big ships which anchor off Cherbourg, explained last week that the Municipality has set 30,000 francs ($1.176 at par) as the price of permitting a liner to dock, counts on the demands of tourists for an easy gangplank landing to force the steamship companies to pay this price. The tender captains charge only 6,000 francs ($235) for landing or embarking 200 passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being...