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Boarding the Indianapolis off Eastport, Me., President Roosevelt received all traditional honors. He walked across a short gangplank from the destroyer which brought him offshore...
...neat, polite little yellow man who read his country's defiance of world opinion to the League of Nations (TIME, March 6), Yosuke Matsuoka marched down a Manhattan gangplank last week and into a waiting automobile. Policemen were thick as flies "BOO! BOO! BOOOOO!" went a crowd of about 300 assorted Chinese and Communists. Patrolman John Ello took into custody one Lin Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There...
...would mean for them a tremendous loss of "face." No sooner was his steamer, the Terukuni Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship, proceed from Kobe to Yokohama, less than an hour's train ride from...
...Europa, traveling first class as usual, sleeping under dinin'g room tables, eating leftover cocktail party sandwiches. Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive. He tipped the stewards handsomely with Editor Ross's $100, walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given it up once...
Exploded Canada's rich, pious, bachelor Premier Richard Bedford Bennett when Halifax newshawks on the S. S. Georgic's gangplank asked if he were contemplating marriage: "The impertinence of the Press is amazing! Only a few days ago a newspaperman rang me up while I was at breakfast to ask me whether it was true I had been married that morning. Does it look as if I had been married, when I am sailing for England...