Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, U. S. N., retired. He died last week in Manhattan, where he had lived since his retirement in 1907, and general notice was taken of the death of the man who commanded the Maine at the time of its sinking in Havana harbor...
...late Winter of 1898 he took the Maine into Havana harbor. The Spanish authorities there were hostile to this country because of the demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General...
...great explosion shook the ship and she immediately began to list. The Captain rushed to the deck and amid the confusion issued orders to post sentries to repel boarders. There were no boarders, but the forward magazines had exploded and the Maine quickly sank in the waters of the harbor, carrying with her 262 men and two officers...
When the Government sold her in 1919 she passed into the darkness of obscurity, if not of ignominy. A few weeks ago she crawled into New York harbor with a crew of starving Cubans, Mexicans and Negroes. She was stripped of all her wooden furnishings, which had been used as fuel to bring...
...poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines: "The present typhoon season is the worst in years! "My yacht, me aboard, was caught in Manila Harbor by a storm and thrown high on a submerged breakwater. No damage was done and no one was injured. Tugs pulled the craft into deep water." William J. Bryan: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, said I was ' as sincere and honest a man as ever believed in his own opinions on things...