Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving U. S. ships like protection. >First prize of the British...
What would have happened if the Athenia had gone down with losses like those of the Lusitania? How would U. S. neutrality be affected by such incidents? What was the meaning of the search of the Bremen...
...feelings were outraged as U. S. feelings had not been outraged since the sinking of the Lusitania, and once again the outrager was the German Government. Long since had U. S. citizens become a little ashamed of having called Germans "Huns" and "Bodies" during the War, but last week, although the epithets were not revived, Adolf Hitler's super-pogrom had succeeded in arousing similar feelings of horror and contempt...
Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
What makes an adventurer? Though hundreds of adventurers have lived to tell the tale, few have attempted an answer to the question. In Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood's best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger...