Word: leviathan
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...Leviathan plowed westward to the U. S. last week, it bore Dwight Whitney Morrow away from the Naval conference at London where he had been a U. S. delegate back to Republican politics in New Jersey where he was a candidate for Senatorial nomination in the June primary. Confronting him were two questions: 1) When should he resign as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and take the Senate seat to which he had been temporarily appointed? 2) How should he stand on Prohibition? If he went immediately into the Senate, he would have six weeks to give to his primary...
...Morrow: Hello, Hello! Betty? I'm sailing Wednesday on the Leviathan...
...Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, who fought and won a last-minute victory to keep the League of Nations from being mentioned in the Treaty (all the other delegations wished to mention it), said to correspondents after he had deposited his certified copy* in the S. S. Leviathan's safe: "I am not interested in warships any more. My chief trouble now is that I have left one of my suitcases in London...
After he signed the Kellogg Pact, a crashing French salute boomed for Mr. Stimson's predecessor as Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg; but last week the Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...