Word: helmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having taught himself to navigate, he equipped Endeavour I with every conceivable mechanical gadget except an altimeter. Like Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Sopwith shares her husband's hobby. In addition to christening his boats, she also sails them. In 1934 she acted as timekeeper, often took the helm of Endeavour before and after races. Endeavour I proved herself much faster than Rainbow by winning the first two races of the 1934 series. She lost the next four principally because of faulty handling by Skipper Sopwith and his inexperienced amateur crew...
...Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held by Leftists. High in the air there suddenly appeared a flight of Leftist bombing planes. The 15,45 2-ton Espana was launched 24 years ago, but she had been recently fitted with...
...Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson barnstormed for them against liquor and drug evils. The Emergency Peace Campaign, best integrated organization of its kind, evidently had a like idea when last week it launched its No Foreign War Crusade with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N. retired, at the helm. During the next two months E. P. C. will send speakers into 2,000 U. S. communities. This week, on the 20th anniversary of the day (April 6) that President Wilson signed the joint resolution of Congress declaring a state of war to exist between the U. S. and Germany...
...Gandhi retired from official leadership of the Congress in 1934, but his scrawny fingers have never entirely left the helm. He is Conservative and friendly to Britain by comparison with violent Congress President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is always preaching about "Socialism" and has keynoted that for Congressmen to take office under the new Constitution "would inevitably mean a kind of Partnership with Imperialism in the exploitation of the Indian people...
...picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished the job. Meanwhile the presiding genius, Irving Thalberg, died, left Al Lewin the production problems. Near Chatsworth, Calif., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rented 500 acres, carved a replica of a Chinese landscape complete with Great Wall.* Real farms were planted, a real water buffalo imported...