Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000 cases of liquor ($500,000), owned by Frenchmen of Tahiti, would be put in a bonded warehouse to be sold "in accordance with any import quotas that...
...were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from every barroom. New York gave him the first of its famed civic welcomes, with Edison bulbs spelling out WELCOME DEWEY on the Brooklyn...
...York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago Union Stock Yards. He had a hand in building up Bessemer &; Lake Erie, which was sold to U. S. Steel Corp. At one time or another he has owned some 46 carriers including Ann Harbor, Pere Marquette. Denver &; Salt Lake. His son Norman helped found the Wartime Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in France in 1916. Mr. &; Mrs. Prince gave $200,000 to the Washington National Cathedral for a memorial chapel where their son's body now lies (TIME, April 29, 1929). Frederick Henry Prince...
...junior officer in the imperial Japanese Navy, studying at Harvard, has recently been engaged in collecting military intelligence in the United States, advice from Washington indicated yesterday. Sketches of the harbor works of San Diego, California were found in the student's pockets following a smash-up the officer received last summer. A companion naval officer was killed in the auto accident...
...Please," pleaded an anxious, intelligent-looking man who entered Pasadena. Calif.'s city jail last week, "let me stay here until my memory returns." The officers in charge, accustomed to mental derelicts, concluded that here was an authentic case of amnesia, gave the man harbor. For several minutes his hand hovered over the jail register. Eventually he signed: "Poor Devil...