Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruddy, jolly, pipe-smoking Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, last week delivered his 'valedictory at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed on the S. S. Empress of Scotland for England and his official duties at Westminster. Said he, speaking also for Mrs. Baldwin, who accompanied...
Continuing, in response to an address of welcome from the Mayor of Halifax, the Prime Minister concluded...
William T. Tilden, tall tennis player, met youthful George Lott Jr., University of Chicago student, in the finals of a relatively unimportant Halifax championship, at Ormond Beach, Fla. Tilden sharply rebuked his opponent for juggling balls before serving; strenuously objected to having idle balls removed from the court; succeeded in losing good wishes of the entire gallery. He also lost the match to his 20-year old adversary...
...Atlantic Ocean like a toothpick in an inky brook. Passengers groped about their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves. The President Harding was completely out of oil. No land was in sight. Captain Theodore van Beek assured everyone that Halifax (Nova Scotia) was only 19 miles away, that he had dropped anchor, that tugs were bringing oil. . . . The President Harding finally reached New York Harbor last week, six days behind schedule...
Said Captain Van Beek: "It was one hell of a trip. ... We had rough weather from the time we left Cherbourg until we reached Halifax. We had difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected...