Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Braving the icy waters of the Charles yesterday afternoon, the Freshman oarsmen set out in the Leviathan for their first out-door workout of the season...
...wealth of material responded to the call for Freshman rowers in the Union meeting last night. About 80 men heard Coaches Whiteside and Haines outline the Weld Boat House today. The squad will train in the Leviathan in a few weeks when the ice goes out of the river...
Meanwhile S. S. Leviathan, arriving at Manhattan, completed her first round trip to Europe under Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson control (TIME, Nov. 2). A West Indian cruise she was scheduled to make was cancelled and she herself was ordered laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked...
...Leviathan entered New York Harbor last week and passed the Statue of Liberty, a fat old woman extracted from her pocketbook a faded U. S. flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
...week was announced the result of two weeks' negotiations between the New York and the Pacific shipmasters. What they did was to compose their own differences (competition in U. S. intercoastal shipping and in Far Eastern trade), in order to be able to undertake jointly operation of the Leviathan and its fellow ships of the U. S. Lines. The agreement therefore provided...