Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bands played, no soldiers paraded, when President-Elect Hoover arrived back in Washington after leaving the Utah at Hampton Roads. Herbert Hoover Jr. met Mr. Hoover at the harbor, and Dr. Work, Senator Shortridge of California and a few minor statesmen were at the station. The President-Elect, arriving in Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain...
Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...steamed the Utah to "the world's most beautiful harbor," escorted by the Brazilian cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul.* Saluting cannon roared on the harbor heights. Airplanes soared in Vs. Aerial bombs exploded, dropping U. S. and Brazilian flags...
Vividly do Swedes recall a day a few months ago when the Principe Alfonso slid swiftly out of Stockholm harbor. Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores...