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That was Dec. 3, off Nantucket. At noon of the next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight...
...Tribune copyreaders passed "Lord Halifax" (his name is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and no one would recognize "Mr. Wood...
...made a fighting speech; decried the lagging steps the U.S. has taken toward preparing for the peace. Turning to Britain's Ambassador, Lord Halifax, he said that the U.S. will have to go far and fast before it catches up on social progress, social reform and the common understanding and working partnership between the richer and poorer classes which has been England's by-product of the war. Then Norris very simply thanked Guffey and all who "have said so many nice things about me" and sat down. He wasn't crying. He was more determined than...
Killed in Action. Captain Peter Wood, 26, of the Yorkshire Dragoons, younger son of Lord Halifax; somewhere in Egypt...
...crew of the St. Roch set out in June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...