Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clearing the Canal, the Houston's party went sightseeing around the old harbor of Porto Bello, visited the Panamanian San Blas Islands...
...Captain Oberlin Montgomery Carter of the Corps of Engineers was on the upswing of what promised to be an exceptionally brilliant career. Graduated from West Point with one of the most brilliant records in Academy history, he had eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business associate of the Vanderbilts. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him Engineers' Corps representative on the American Canal Commission and military attache at the Court of St. James...
...Savannah, Captain Carter's successor began an investigation resulting in charges that he had conspired with the harbor contractors to mulct the Government, by shoddy work and extravagant prices, of some $1,800,000. Summoned from London, Captain Carter was court-martialed, cashiered from the Army, sentenced to five years at hard labor in Leavenworth Prison, fined $5,000. His crime & sentence were ordered published in his home town (Patriot, Ohio) newspapers for one year. After 17 months President McKinley approved his sentence and he was clapped into Leavenworth. The contractors were also sentenced to prison, fined...
...Manhattan, through whose harbor passes 90% of the U. S. annual $100,000,000 trade with Italy, the Export Managers Club lunched in high dudgeon last week, resolved to trade & traffic with Italy to the best of their ability. Next that potent nexus of big shippers, railroads and steamship companies, the Conference of Port Development of the City of New York Inc. resolved that the President's warnings are "hasty and ill-advised," a "serious blow" to U. S. Commerce & Recovery. After becoming so heated that it referred to the President as "the daring young man on the international...
...behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light cruiser Devonshire. With the crew lining the rails at attention, the Devonshire snaked its way through the great armada of British warships jamming Alexandria harbor, made the 124-mile run to Port Said. There the crew manned ship again; a royal salute was fired; the little prince went down the captain's gangway to board the P. & 0. liner Strathaird for Britain and the life of a British schoolboy...