Word: gibraltarism
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...reciprocal trade agreements, discriminations, nationalistic campaigns to consume homemade goods and a score of tactics . . . each of which adds to world confusion and dangers. . . . We find some 44 countries definitely off the gold standard. . . . The United States has held stanchly to the gold standard. . . . We have thereby maintained one Gibraltar of stability in the world and contributed to check the movement to chaos. . . . We will be forced to defensive action to protect ourselves unless this mad race is stopped...
Members of New York's Tammany Hall may or may not be a burden to the city; they seem a positive jinx to the Italian Line. With pinchbeck little James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...
...Admiralty Arch and its iron gates (which prudent bobbies had locked) stood like Gibraltar while Admiral Nelson looked down from his Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
Soon after M. S. Rex broke down at Gibraltar, fortnight ago, Rome heard rumors that His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, would resign as president of the Italian Line because of the breakdown...
Scores of Passengers (after fuming aboard the Rex at Gibraltar for three days): "Why isn't the purser in his office? . . . Why can't anybody find the Captain? . . . They said yesterday afternoon that we should positively sail during the night...