Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue was at hand, they had seen one boat swamped and most of its occupants drowned before help could reach them, another one smashed to kindling by the propeller of a rescue ship. And so they were in no mood to take No from Mr. Kennedy's son John...
...John faltered: "We are still neutral and the neutrality law still holds...
...John Kennedy sidestepped: "It is much better to be on an American boat now than on a British boat, even if it was accompanied by the whole fleet...
Back to London went John Kennedy to tell his father...
Meantime, the duty of Sire Kennedy and of U. S. Minister John Cudahy at Dublin was to determine and report just how the Athenia was sunk. Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine...