Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed to do about it he kept strictly to himself all last week. He was on vacation in his 16-room, copper-roofed "cabin" (cost: $100,000) at the Huron Mountain Club in the wilds of northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down on him to ask about the Blue...
...pound again "seek its natural level." What that might be none knew, but at 81¾ francs the pound was only 1¼ francs above its all-time low. This week fox-bearded Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, having pleasantly enjoyed himself at Bar Harbor, Me., was to have an interview with President Roosevelt at the suggestion of Governor George Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Britons wondered, like Americans, exactly where their currency was headed, saw their pound for the first time this year falling faster than the dollar...
Vexed tourists were still getting on & off transatlantic liners outside the harbor of Cherbourg by means of seagoing tenders last week. Still more vexed was the Municipality of Cherbourg which completed on May 1 a magnificent new $12,500,000 deep-water harbor and docks at which liners can tie up. Even the public celebration of Cherbourg's achievement, for which sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun of France was rushed down from Paris (TIME, Aug. 7), did no good. Up to last week not a single liner had used Cherbourg's docks, temptingly emblazoned with the arms...
When a U. S. bootlegger's airplane skidded to a halt in Nassau Harbor last week, a pale, pockmarked, frightened Cuban, Gerardo Machado y Morales, instantly demanded police protection. Nassau's big, black, pith-helmeted police ordinarily carry no firearms, but now rifles were issued to some of them and a guard posted at the Royal Victoria Hotel...
...American's long-legged technical adviser, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jaunting across the North Atlantic with his Wife Anne to survey a transoceanic route for Pan American, arrived in Copenhagen in an Eskimo fur coat. When cheering Danes nearly swamped his red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed in Copenhagen harbor, he took off again, came down in the sanctity of the naval airport...