Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year disposal of these services has been delayed while the two operating companies and the U. S. lines wrangled with the Shipping Board over purchase bids. The President said commission No. 13 would also supervise the financing and building by U. S. lines of two new Leviathan-class ships with $60,000,000 loaned by the Shipping Board. President Hoover thought the whole inquiry could be cleaned up in 60 days. Though as a matter of law the President has no power to interfere with the Shipping Board's activities, that agency promptly acceded...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...
...unit of the Harvardians, well-known undergraduate jazz band, has signed up to play for the student third class tourists on the S. S. Leviathan this summer, it was announced yesterday by Roy Lamson '29, leader and manager of the orchestra...
...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...