Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Press On Sirs: Kiwanians of the McKanArk district, alert to the need of a timely gesture of courage in the face of the business depression properly to launch their convention at Joplin, chose a TiMEly method when Convention Committee Chairman Harry Horner of Wichita arose at the start of the initial session and read from TIME, Sept. 21 issue, The Presidency, the full article from which the following are excerpts: "At 4 p.m. one hot day last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. . . . The U. S. public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship...
...After the airplane started taxiing we struck a wire or a piece of debris in the river. I lost control of the machine. Anne jumped into the river, and realizing the force of the current, I jumped overboard to assist her. . . . We were struggling in the water when a launch ... arrived." (Colonel Lindbergh, via United Press...
...drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about 50, the other about 18, had boarded the Penguin, bound her husband and thrown him overboard, then paddled her to the launch...
...husband they had a wounded man with them. N. L. Noteman, the fisherman who found Barbara Collings on the drifting boat, had reported seeing a swimmer sink near the Penguin. When it became apparent that Mrs. Collings had been subjected to an abnormal attack before being left in the launch her attorney advanced the theory that the murder was committed by a lunatic, pointing to the brutality toward Collings, the attack on his wife, the solicitude shown her in leaving blankets in the launch as evidences of a paranoiac mind...
...Norwalk, but they had departed. From the Hotel Charles in Springfield, Mass, had come word that an "F. E. Collingbourne & Wife" of Stamford, Conn, had registered there more than a year ago. A blanket from the Hotel Charles and a pair of large canvas shoes were found in the launch with Mrs. Collings. Fred J. Voos, president of the Bridgeport baseball club, told police he had borrowed a similar blanket early in the summer, that later it had been stolen from his boat with a pair of canvas shoes and a knife. At just that time he had passed...