Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Mussolini during his Ethiopian campaign, not wishing to arouse public apprehension by returning so many Italian wounded to the homeland, hospitalized them on the Isle of Rhodes. In the Spanish adventure, apparently less afraid of public reaction, he has been quietly slipping his wounded "volunteers" into Naples harbor, consigning them to nearby base hospitals...
...Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been lost...
...Muralist Marsh has long itched to fill is the 30-year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster as any frescoer could itch for. He prepared a series of eight sketches, showing scenes of a liner (Queen Mary) entering New York Harbor, taking the pilot aboard, warping into her pier, discharging freight...
...Chinese quarters. Cabled New York Times veteran Hallett Abend: "The Tientsin crisis is definitely over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed up to a Chinese warship, took it away from its Chinese bluejacket crew without a fight...
Died. Anning Smith Prall, 66, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, six-time (1923-35) Representative from New York's eleventh Congressional District; in Boothbay Harbor, Me. Died-Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton Field, 84, widow of Chicago Department Store Owner Marshall Field; in Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Field was first married to Arthur J. Caton, Chicago corporation lawyer, who died in 1904. A year later she married Merchant Field, who died...