Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocky sides rising sheer as a battleship's, swept by tidal currents too strong for any man to swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz means pelican. The island was used by the Spaniards as a harbor fortification. In its sandstone bowels are deep dungeons and underground passages. For years the War Department has used it as a military prison. Last week the island was transferred to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings announced that its 600-cell jail would become the home of the nation's worst criminals...
...Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden...
Extra alert were the Coast Guard outside of New York Harbor one night last week. They had been tipped off that a big load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...
...Puzzled harbor officials called up the Newtex Line next day, asked whether its Texas Ranger had arrived. President Dennis Moloney replied no, of course not. She was several hundred miles from New York...
Identified in Lloyd's register as the Holmewood of Barbados, owned by Continental Indies Shipping Co., Ltd., the abandoned ship was towed down the river into New York harbor and her cargo placed under guard. As she lay at anchor near the Statue of Liberty she created amazement among the officers and crew of the real Texas Ranger as they steamed in from Galveston...