Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonnet and shawl, disguised as a charwoman. Samuel Insull had been spirited out of the country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally from the harbor master of Piraeus, Athens' port seven miles away, came a report that a rusty foul-smelling little tramp steamer known as the Maiotis had cleared for parts unknown with Samuel Insull as its only passenger. Further investigation showed that Samuel Insull had dyed his hair and mustache black, put on nobby...
...Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where he is safe from extradition. Only when the harbor of Piraeus rose before the Maiotis' disreputable bow did he know what had happened. Then he promptly had another seizure...
That was quickly done, and once again, like crafty Odysseus, foxy Samouel Insullos sailed the wine-dark ocean past the isles of Greece. The end of adventure was not yet. The Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap...
...Japanese schooner anchored just outside Vladivostok's heavily fortified harbor. The captain said he was a "scientific fisherman" and had had a little engine trouble. Frontier guards reported that he had high power radio sending sets aboard, that his schooner was engaged in espionage...
Four miles back chugged the Blankenburg. While Patrolman Corliss dried himself in the Harbor Patrol's office, police statisticians computed salaries, fuel, wear & tear, concluded that the rescue had cost Philadelphia $250. Then they sat down to try. to figure out what to do with...