Word: gibraltarism
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Month ago, the Cunard White Star liner Laurentic suffered a minor collision as she left England on a Mediterranean cruise, had to transfer her passengers to the Doric of the same line. Last week, this 16,484-ton vessel was churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued...
...Africa. From Egyptian sources it appeared that an armed British sneak toward Lake Tana was indeed being prepared. The Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean fleet would "cruise" for the time being in such fashion as to command the mouth of the Suez Canal. Other British war boats strengthened Gibraltar and Red Sea points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base of Malta orders from London to erect shelters against air bombs were excitedly obeyed. Some 1,000 troops were ordered to sail from England to bring the Malta garrison up to full strength. Even more ominously...
That President Roosevelt fears Little Rock may no longer be Gibraltar for his No. 1 Senate wheelhorse appeared last week when it was revealed that the President's forthcoming Western trip would include a stop at Little Rock for a speech in Senator Robinson's behalf...
...sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...
...South American so-called republics. Certainly there has never been such a dark and bloody chapter as is recorded by our American Indians, with torturings, murderings and scalpings. Neither is it a month's journey to Liberia, for by sailing on the Italian Line and transferring at Gibraltar, Monrovia can be reached in 14 days. Health conditions have greatly improved and I heard and saw nothing of bubonic plague or yellow fever. For a month I lived opposite the Executive Mansion and I saw none of the tin cans you so vividly describe...