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When the towering Scot, followed by his 6-ft. lady, stepped off the gangplank of the Strathmore, the white warships of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard...
...President drove 50 miles to Titusville, entrained for the South. At Port Everglades he marched up the gangplank of the Monaghan, put out to sea where his yacht awaited...
When the liner docked, the couple tripped smiling down the gangplank, amid yells of "Here comes the bride!" They refused all comment on the nuptials. Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java...
...deck, with Jon in his mother's arms. A tug warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some of the men in rough clothes raised their caps. Anne Lindbergh smiled wanly. The day was so dark that the photographers flashed their bulbs. Jon, in his father's arms, blinked, then buried his face in the grey-plaid shoulder. The tall...
...half a day late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins: "EARNESTLY IMPLORE YOU TELEPHONE ANGEL ISLAND EXPEDITING DR KAGAWA'S EYE EXAMINATION...