Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germans in New York City's Yorkville drank Münchner stolidly, foresaw a quick Nazi victory, worried only over the homeward trip of the Bremen...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
...cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan; a man who described himself as "only...
...Raleigh, N. C., a Negro servant named Eugene was told by his master to guard his car, stayed faithfully in it four days and three nights. Meantime his master forgot where he had parked, concluded Eugene had run off, stalked darkly homeward after notifying the police...
...Homeward bound on the Pennsylvania one night, an idea struck him. In the arid west, where the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has for years provided water and sometimes generated power as a byproduct, Bond & Share units have bought this public power and transmitted it to their own customers over their own lines. Why could not Bond & Share keep Bonneville and Grand Coulee from building transmission lines by the same means? Why not buy their power and distribute it, dovetailing public power plants with private transmission lines and private meters...