Word: lorber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxiously brooding over his simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty-two-year-old Captain Lorber was a hero to more than his Baltimore family. He had behind him a record...
...happen again." At first denied by Lieut. Colonel R. Swire, chief censor in Hamilton, who declared, "utter nonsense . . . no armed men were in the vicinity," the story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...