Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shores of Haiti, the fleet anchored. To the rails 40,000 sailors, white-garbed, bronze-faced, scrambled, stood at attention. Out from the harbor, the cruiser Trenton moved. Suddenly the grease-grey guns on the biggest ships spat red and yellow fire . . . boom . . . boom . . . boom . . . Twenty-one guns they fired, the full presidential salute. It was for Louis Borno, President of the Negro Republic of Haiti (see p. 6). From the deck of the Trenton he watched the U. S. display its naval power while he chatted with Theodore Douglas Robinson, fourth Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...gentlemen had rowed out, sweating, into the great crescent river-harbor of New Orleans, La., to the Japanese world cruise ship Santos Mam. There they had found a huge, six-foot, blue-eyed Englishman of 58, who admitted to having been from 1917 to 1922 the most potent jurist in India, the Advocate General of Bengal, a post second in dignity only to the Viceroyship. Sipping their tea, the gentlemen of the press gave eager heed to Sir Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons. Lady Gibbons poured...
...gala performance of Barrie's one-act plays, staged by a society of amateurs, was crowded with brilliantly uniformed foreign officers and brilliantly gowned women. The street lights reflect a miniature Paris, but in some respects more beautiful because the harbor, with its many foreign warships, illuminates this extraordinary Yangtze metropolis...
...Marriage at St. John's Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. They will maintain residences in Washington, D. C., New York, Spokane...
Uruguay also played flyers' host last week. The three surviving U. S. Army "Good Will" planes (TIME, March 7), flew in to Montevideo from Buenos Aires. Leaving the harbor soon after, the San Francisco failed to rise from the water, hit a rock. Damage was (slight and soon mended, though ; Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild broke a irib. Soon Rio de Janeiro turned out to welcome* the pilgrims to Brazil...