Word: lusitanias
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...that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President, Cal replied, after...
...World War II has yet to touch. They went in pictures like Hearts of the World; The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin; the wonderful Shoulder Arms and the somewhat less wonderful but far more typical The Little American, in which German soldiers battered at the stateroom doors of the foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then, who remember dugouts gratefully named Keystone Kottage, Vitagraph Village...
Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, U.S.N., turned 30, automatically came into another $5,000,000 from the estate of his father, Alfred Sr., who sank with the Lusitania in 1915. The millionaire bos'n got his first share at 21, his second at 25, will get his fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work...
World famous in World War I, Shaw showed high courage by insisting on freedom of opinion in wartime. He attacked the outcry over the sinking of the Lusitania, claimed it was sentimental to weep over the loss of a few rich passengers at a time when millions were dying horribly at the front. Dropped by dozens of friends, he lived with his stairway barricaded by iron spikes, continued to write violent criticism of the British...
...Sisters (Warner) are a very unhappy trio of prospective million-heiresses: Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coleman. Their mother went down with the Lusitania. Their father died on a World War I battlefield. They have passed the best part of 23 years in court trying to get a clear title to the half-billion dollars fate and father left them. The Gay Sisters chronicles this courtroom crisis straight through to the final gavel...