Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review of the U. S. Fleet...
...Thursday, May 17th last, some thousand persons representing a diversity of religious faiths and political creeds assembled in Charlestown, Mass., intending to meet on a vacant lot near the Navy Yard in order to protest the presence of the Nazi propaganda ship, the "Karlsruhe," in Boston harbor. This protest they deemed very necessary in view of the fact that the excessive cordiality of the reception given the German cruiser by Mayor Mansfield and Governor Ely could searcely be distinguished from an expression of approval of the Nazi philosophy and practices...
...huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time a President had ever reviewed the Fleet off New York Harbor, the first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy's traditional parade ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise. There...
...quarter-mile apart in Benton Harbor, Mich, lie the dormitories and mansions of two branches of the famed religious cult called the House of David. Founded some 30 years ago by "King"' Benjamin Purnell. the House of David was divided by its founder's death in 1927. His widow and "Queen" took command of the ''Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell." A California judge named Harry T. Dewhirst won the right to the name House of David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They...
Into New York Harbor last week steamed the second biggest whaling ship afloat, the 22,000-ton S. S. Sir James Clark Ross. In her hold was the largest cargo of whale oil ever to enter the port-a 45,000,000-lb. consignment for Procter & Gamble to use in its soaps. Five months in the Antarctic whaling grounds and 1,117 whales were "required to fill the Ross's 120,000 barrels...